We’re Suffering, Pay Us Our Arrears – NaBCo Trainees Cry Out

Beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) have reminded government again about their salaries which have been in arrears for over eight months.

“We are reminding the government that beneficiaries of NaBCo are still owed eight (8) months of their stipends,” a statement signed by the President of NABTAG, Dennis Opoku Katakyie have said on Monday, January 16, 2023.

It further noted that the “current payment that was made to cover December 2021, still has some validated trainees not receiving theirs’, coupled with reposted GRA Trainees also being unattended to.”

It warned that “we will be forced to stage our next massive picketing at the Ministry of Finance to demand all arrears if the government fails to pay us as soon as possible”.

It added: “We’re suffering, pay our remaining eight (8) months arrears”!

NABCo was introduced by the President Akufo-Addo-led administration in 2017 as part of measures to address graduate unemployment in the country.

The initiative was run under seven modules, namely Educate Ghana, Heal Ghana, Feed Ghana, Revenue Ghana, Digitize Ghana, Enterprise Ghana, and Civic Ghana.

But poor economic conditions that have hit the country in recent times have compelled the government to cancel the initiative, laying off thousands of beneficiaries whose living conditions have worsened over the period due to the non payment of their monthly arrears.

Source : Ghananewsonline.com.gh