President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the newly built multipurpose North East Regional Office of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).

The President was supported by the Deputy Chief Executive of the Youth Employment Agency, Alhaji Ibrahim Bashiru, and a number of Ministers to outdoor the facility.

This was to ensure that the Agency’s new Regional Headquarters in the North East Region begin full operations and, in line with the President’s vision of job creation, decentralization, and infrastructure development, actualize equitable implementation of the One Million Jobs Agenda.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo also inaugurated a newly constructed office for the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in the North East Region.

The RCC administration block constructed at a cost of GH¢17.6 million is among the administration structures being constructed for the six newly created Regions, and the second to be completed after that of Western-North Region.

Located at Nalerigu, the Regional capital, the building would house all departments of the RCC and other state institutions to ensure effective and efficient administration of the Region. It consists of spacious conference halls, meeting rooms, canteen, and store rooms among others.

President Akufo-Addo, was delighted at the pace of infrastructure development in the newly created Region.

Speaking at a brief ceremony to mark the commissioning, President Akufo-Addo called on all and sundry to support the Employment Agenda of his government in every diverse way possible, an initiative he believes will continue to instill peace in the Region and Ghana and also bring about development.

The President said the construction of the new office complexes formed part of the government’s resolve to ensure the effective and efficient administration of the new region, saying: “you can’t create a new region, without building the necessary infrastructure to help run the region”.

“The reason why we created the regions is to bring governance closer to the people and accelerate the process for socio-economic activities to progress in the various regions, and in order for that to happen you need a focal point around which governmental actions can take place”.
President Akufo-Addo

YEA Grateful to Government

Mr Ibrahim Bashiru, Deputy CEO in charge of Operations at the Youth Employment Agency, acting on behalf of the CEO, Lawyer Justin Frimpong Kodua, thanked the President for his resourcefulness and support for the Agency since 2017.

Mr Bashiru noted that there was a massive deficiency that impeded the operations and effective implementation of modules of the Agency due mainly to corruption in the previous years.

“Management took a bold decision of revamping and reforming the Agency into an enviable one, a result of which we are experiencing today”.
Mr Bashiru

According to Mr Bashiru, two of such Regional offices have been completed and commissioned in the Oti, Western North and Ahafo Regions. Several others are at various stages of completion in other Regions and Districts.

He said that all of these are intended to bring life to the Agency’s innovative programmes like the Agric-based Flagship projects, YEA Job centre, Artisan Directory, CHWS etc.

Mr Bashiru further assured the President and the entire country of consistent hard work and innovation to bring more development and create more jobs for the youth of Ghana.