NYEP TRAINS 600 YOUTH IN TEMA (PAGE 36, MAY 31, 2020)

The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Kempes Ofosuware, has said the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has successfully trained over 600 youth in the metropolis.
He said some were still undergoing training in their chosen areas of the modules of the NYEP in Tema West, Tema East and Kpone- Katamanso constituencies in the metropolis.
Mr Ofosuware, who was addressing the Assembly’s first ordinary meeting, said the NYEP was one of the Assembly's ongoing development programmes hence the need to ensure that its three sub-metropolitan district councils support the programmes.
He noted that the Assembly had so far trained 120 youth in dressmaking while 17 others had completed training in the ICT module.
Mr Ofosuware said other areas of training were waste management, eco-brigade, health extension and grasscutter rearing.
He said that waste and sanitation management had attracted 60 youth who supported the Assembly's sanitation and waste management programmes and that 220 young people had been engaged to clean and protect the beaches and tourism sites along the coastal belt.
Mr Ofosuware stated that those who were selected to undergo the grasscutter training of trainers course were to impart the knowledge to youth in the sub-metro areas after their course and that would also be programmed into the youth in agriculture module to benefit those who would express interest in farming.
Mr Ofosuware said the youth must take advantage of the programme and take up available jobs to make some earnings, as well as help in the development of the metropolis.
Mr Ofosuware also hinted that the assembly was considering the introduction of a special GH¢2 per annum levy on all rateable adults in the metropolis and hoped that would provide the needed funds to boost its development agenda.
Mr Ofosuware observed that revenue from outdoor advertising could be one of the major sources of income to the assembly and called for a well-regulated and monitored activity to ensure that there was full compliance.
He said a committee would be set up to streamline the processes of the site registration and, mapping and suggest revenue mobilisation avenues in the advertising field to ensure that the assembly derive maximum revenue in its operational areas.