NABCO Trainees To Receive 5 Out Of 9 Months Arrears (Details)

Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) trainees will soon receive 5 out of 9 months arrears owed them. This was confirmed by the NABCO officials on Friday, 2nd February, 2024. Currently, government owes each NABCO beneficiary a total of ¢6,300.

This comes weeks after the trainees staged a series of pickets to express their displeasure. The first Nabco trainees had contracts that expired in October 2021, but the government asked them to stay until it (government) could pay their overdue allowances and find them a job.

According to some Twitter users, life has been unbearable, a development they say has affected their standards of living and family welfare.

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Some also blamed the government for abandoning them, adding that they have been “perishing in extreme hunger and deprivation. It could be recalled in February this year that the trainees embarked on a demonstration to compel the government to address their grievances

The Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, once urged calm among the personnel and assured them that government is taking steps to resolve the issue.

“If they have been on the programme for three years, two or a year, and they have been paid all these years with five months outstanding; then there is an issue, have patience.”

“I believe the government has heard them, and if we are not talking about a year or six months allowance and it is five, obviously it will be worked on, and you will be paid,” he assured.

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About NABCo

NABCO was introduced by the 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.

The programme is a government initiative that was created to address the graduate unemployment to solve social problems in the country. The 36-month programme has three phases – six-month probation, 24-month work placement and six months exit preparation.

The scheme currently operates through seven modules: Educate Ghana, Heal Ghana, Feed Ghana, Revenue Ghana, Digitise Ghana, Civic Ghana and Enterprise Ghana.