New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disclosed that the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has paid about GH¢949,661,017 through Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), now Youth Employment Agency to Rlg Communications Ghana Limited for no work done.
The information and communications technology (ICT) company owned by a Ghanaian entrepreneur, Mr. Roland Agambire, NPP revealed, was “owing” another GH¢259,000,000 when the December 2012 general elections were over.
“Thus, as much as GH¢1,208,661,017 was spent on an elaborate, corrupt scheme, created mainly to assist President John Mahama hold on to power in 2012, using the false excuse of creating jobs for the young people of Ghana. Four years on, still, everyone in two young persons are unemployed.”
This was revealed by the Policy Advisor of the NPP, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, at a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra yesterday.
He pointed out that it was useful to recollect that the NPP’s National Youth Employment programme was launched on October 3rd, 2006.
According to him, by the time NPP left office on January 7, 2009 about 110,000 young people were employed under the scheme, earning incomes and not a single allegation of scandal was linked to the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) for two years.
He pointed out that the first innovative policy initiated by the NDC when it took office was to change the name from NYEP to GYEEDA, after which they proceeded to lay off all the 110,000 young Ghanaians under the NYEP.
“Yet, after spending an equivalent of nearly half a billion dollars, the NDC has not been able to employ more than 70,000 young Ghanaians under the scheme in eight years,” he added.
According to Mr. Agyarko, it was by this time in 2012 that hundreds of millions of Ghana Cedis were released for unbudgeted expenditure, including payments to Rlg Communications Ghana Limited, for distribution of laptops embossed with President Mahama’s campaign pictures.
The NPP policy advisor alleged that the amounts fraudulently abused under these so-called employment schemes went to companies with very close links to President Dramani Mahama from the womb of the AGAMS Group such as rLG, Craftpro and Asongtaba.
Some of the payments made to AGAMS, he mentioned, for instance, were laundered and rechanneled to fund campaign spending on billboards, newspaper, TV and radio adverts for the President and his party, the NDC.
“Indeed, such was the impunity used in abusing public funds that the benefiting media houses did not even bother to question why cheques from AGAMS were issued to them for payments of adverts done for the ruling party.
He said an illegal loan of GH¢50 million was also advanced to the AGAMS Group by GYEEDA.
Mr. Agyarko also mentioned that the Ghana National Education Coalition in 2013 complained about the fact that the laptop contract, sole-sourced to rLG, using a cheap Ubuntu software, was twice as expensive as other similar computers on the local retail market.
He indicated that GYEEDA, which replaced the National Youth Employment Programme of the NPP, was set up ostensibly to offer jobs for young Ghanaians.
“Instead, it became a conduit for looting state funds and funding the President’s 2012 campaign,” he averred.
To date, the NPP man wondered why not a single person has been successfully prosecuted for the blatant and systematic theft of state funds.
Source: Today
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So Roland had all these money and they wont give us the teachers they trained or certificates, transportation cost etc. After lasting off your staff immediately after a major training in November last year 2015, and till date you refuse to pay them what is due them. Mahama and the NDC government have duped this nation through Roland. December 7 is just around.
Hmmm and he has still not paid his staff Nsem piiiiii
Stealing is the only thing they know and they do it well.Just one day belong to the farmer.
Asem b3ba dabi ooo ab3n b3 bom.......we seriously need change or else these people will take us into slave trade again, change is blowing
so u didnt benefit from this cash right? No worries preach the mesage change to ur peopl cos that is what cnasave us from these people cos they are misusing our taaxes
Am a former employee of rlg. And we have been lead off by rlg at the beginning of this year up to now rlg is owning me my 3 month selera. Please somebody should help as get our money from Roland agmabire.
He comes and talks pretending to be that innocent flower but indeed he is the serpent under it. How can you treat mother Ghana this way all because of the quest for political power Mr.President? Looking at even the number of campaign billboards of the President flooding the entire surface area of Ghana for the 2016 election alone is enough basis for one to believe this expose'. Ghanaians must use commonsense and patriotism to vote and not fantasy to do so. We must be serious as a nation.
Don't even know wat to say!! Pls God help us n make this CHANGE a reality in the minds of all Ghanaian voters.
Mr Prez your mistakes sound like a deliberate once to punish the electorates by increase and invade more taxes so now you have clearly expose how you are that indeed you can not take any decision you are ruing the nation just like the survive of the fitters who can survive your hardship can live, Mr Prez the voices of the people is the voices of God, if I understood the Constitution clearly it didn't say you only have four years that means if you do not win the 2016 election you another chance to contest other elections so stop forcing for the seat which is not yours. Ghana need peaces so be it. God bless Ghana A Change is coming!!!
EI! EEI!! EEEEEIIII!!! GOD HAVE MERCY ON GHANAIANS. WE HAVE ALL THIS MONEY GOING DOWN THE DRAIN AND THE MASSES IN GHANA ARE STRUGGLING FOR ONE SQUARE MEAL A DAY. WHEN WILL THIS NDC GOVERNMENT AND MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS SHALL END. COME ALL IN DECEMBER 7 AND VOTE MASSIVELY AGAINST THIS CORRUPT GOVERNMENT. EVIL IS PROSPERING UNDER THIS NDC GOVERNMENT. WE NEED CHANGE. PLEASE JESUS CHRIST, STEP IN AND SAVE US.