By Nana Kofi Hammah
About three months down the line, after the program has ended, some NABCO Trainees claim they are yet to receive their remaining pay from the Government.
This is what informed the MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong to call on the government to pay the NABCO Trainees, what is due them.
According to Mr. Agyapong, the call has become necessary for him to add his voice, since some of the NABCO Trainees have called on him personally to intervene.
He believes that if the government can find huge sums of money to pay Parliamentarians he wondered why that can’t be the case for students.
”Anytime I travel and I get to the Airport; I get these young men and women coming to me, that I should plead on their behalf that they have not been paid. The government has to pay them”, he stated.
The controversial Member of Parliament believes it’s just propaganda the government used in getting this policy implemented and so the government has no excuse not to pay the beneficiaries.
Calls on the Government to pay the NABCO Trainees’ stipends, intensified when some beneficiaries hit the streets to protest for the non-payments for about 6 months and 9 months in some cases.
”Now when it comes to NABCO, the NPP is behaving like the NDC”, he asserts.
”Its complete propaganda if you haven’t paid them ‘‘No one works for free, we should be reasonable enough to know that these students and workers pay for transportation in their daily reporting to work and it comes as a heavy burden onto them when their stipends are in arrears”, he noted.
The Assin MP acknowledged that some beneficiaries have been absorbed into the system and advised the government to pay them what’s unsettled if the government thinks it can’t continue with the policy as expected, Mr. Agyepong noted.
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NABCO Demo: “I support them. They should demonstrate about a month straight for the government to sit up and pay them” – Kennedy Agyapong, Assin Central MP.#GTVBreakfast pic.twitter.com/YUUQuFDiKw
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