The Ghana Private Employment Agency, (GHAPEA), has embarked on a demonstration in Accra to force the government to lift the ban on recruitment of youth from Ghana to the Gulf region.
Members of the Agency and some unemployed youth demonstrated from the Obra Spot at Circle through some principal streets in the business district of Accra to the park near the Arts Centre where the Vice-Chairman of the Agency, Atta Abubakar Zabre presented a petition to the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations,Bright Wireku Brobbey.
Government banned recruitment from the country to the Gulf region due to the inhumane treatment, those who were sent there went through. Most of them were lured by these recruitment agencies and left there to go through this inhumane treatment.
To curb this trend and streamline the recruitment to the Gulf Region, government banned the activities of the Agencies last year.
Presenting a petition to the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko Brobbey, the Vice Chairman of the Ghana Private Employment Agency, Atta Abubakar Zebre said travelling outside the country for greener pastures is not bad.
He urged government to lift the ban to allow the Agency to do its work to help manage Ghana’s unemployment concerns.
Receiving the petition, Mr. Wireko Brobbey said government will consider the petition and come up with a road map to lift the ban. He urged members of the agency to exercise restraint while government takes on the petition.
The Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations,Bright Wireko Brobbey commanded the demonstrators for making it peaceful.
Report by Justina Adjeley Ago and Rudulf Nandi
