Akufo-Addo to commission NABCO recruits today

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will officially commission the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) employment modules at the Black Star Square today.

The program seeks to employ 100,000 of the country’s graduate youth in various sectors of the economy.

Today’s event will see the beneficiaries who went through successful interviews placed to start working.

Speaking in an interview, the Chief Executive Officer of NABCO, Dr. Anyars Ibrahim hinted that all processes leading to the selection off the 100,000 graduates out of the over 130,000 applications received have been finalized paving way for the passing out ceremony today.

Dr. Anyars was quick to add that the NABCO secretariat had to device means of ensuring that all documents and other relevant information provided by applicants were authentic hence the need to verify such information with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health over two critical modules that is Heal Ghana and Feed Ghana. Today’s graduation marks the beginning of a transformational journey the graduates and the nation as government yet again fulfill its mandate of providing jobs to the youth of the country.

The Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) was launched by His Excellency the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as part of government’s initiative to provide jobs for the country’s unemployed graduates. The seven modules under NABCO is meant to help address the challenges facing the nation’s most pressing sectors while providing jobs to graduates who are unable to find jobs partly due to a ban on public sector employment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).