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critical analysis of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial
Agency (GYEEDA) report indicted about fifteen persons who were later
arrested by the Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO).
Twelve
of the suspects were questioned and granted bail. This came on the back
of the revealing report which unearthed the rot in the programmes run
by GYEEDA.
Government in March this year announced in the 2013
Budget Statement a freeze on all new modules and plans to review
operations of the GYEEDA, formerly called the National Youth Employment
Programme.
A five-member ministerial committee led by Mr. Ferdinand Gunny was set up to investigate the alleged rot.
The
committee submitted its report to President John Mahama who in turn
directed the EOCO to begin investigations into the issues.
Though
the President assured Ghanaians he will find a lasting solution to the
corruption at GYEEDA and also ensure that the culpable ones do not go
unpunished, the Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight, Ken Kuranchie
is of a different perception.
He opined, during a panel discussion programme on Oman FM that the investigations by the EOCO will come to naught.
According to him, the government is rather covering up to muffle the truth in the GYEEDA report.
“…we
(Ghanaians) are not going to get a pesewa back from GYEEDA. He has
covered up. There’s an issue with the financial purse of government but
who audits the purse? It’s the Auditor General. The Committee, in any
case, is a low powered Committee; ministerial Committee. The Minister
who set up the Committee should have had questions to answer…The matter
is dead…The matter as far as I’m concerned is clear that GYEEDA has been
successfully covered up.”
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