LACK of bank account numbers for the beneficiaries of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has been identified as one of the major causes of delays in the payment of their monthly salaries in the Upper West Region.
Consequently, the regional directorate of the programme is making frantic efforts to ensure that all those under the programme submit their account numbers to be forwarded to Accra for the preparation of their pay roll vouchers.
The Regional Co-ordinator of the NYEP, Mr Nurudeen Sani, who made this known to the Daily Graphic at Wa, however, said only few beneficiaries were yet to submit their account numbers to the secretariat.
He said all things being equal, the allowances of all beneficiaries of the programme would be regularised by November, this year.
“I am assuring beneficiaries that the late payment of allowances will soon be a thing of the past as we are frantically working hard to regularise the payment system,” he added.
According to Mr Sani, over 5,000 people had been recruited under different modules, including community police assistants, teaching assistants, internship and information and communication (ICT).
He said under the community police assistants module, 110 people had been recruited but only 50 had been trained while the rest were waiting for their turn at the Pwalugu Police Training Depot.
“We have also recruited a number of young people to go into dressmaking by the beginning of next month in addition to master trainers who number about 150,” Mr Sani stated.
He commended the Cabinet for approving the increment in the talk tax to 60 per cent to support the NYEP.
Mr Sani also praised beneficiaries of the programme for their co-operation and expressed the hope that they would continue to discharge their duties effectively.
The NYEP was started in June 2006 with the prime objective of reducing unemployment among the youth in Ghana.
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