The Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) has detected some 3,807 beneficiaries of the programme have concurrently enrolled onto other government-supported youth employment initiatives in an attempt to receive double pay.
Out of the number, 1,702 have been identified to be people who are already gainfully employed.
They form part of 18,001 beneficiaries who have various queries to answer, for which the payment of their stipends has been halted.
Among those with concurrent enrolment, the NaBCo Secretariat discovered that 1,368 were on the payroll of the Forestry Commission, 408 on extended National Service, 322 on the Youth Employment Agency module, with seven nurses on the Ministry of Health training institutions allowance.
Speaking in an interview the media, the Chief Executive Officer of
Statistics have shown that as of January 10, 2019, the
He explained that payment under the scheme was not as straightforward as many would think, explaining that because it was a major government programme, the managers had to put in place a robust system to deal with issues relating to payments.
Dr Anyars said when the Ministry of Finance released GH¢67.13 million for the first payment of stipends to beneficiaries, 95,908 trainees had confirmed their acceptance onto the scheme and qualified for the allowance of GH¢700 each.
He said because of the verification and validation system, only 60,100 of them were paid immediately and a subsequent 17,807 were later validated and paid on December 14, 2018.
Dr Ibrahim noted that some of the challenges surrounding payments to the
“It is because of these challenges that we want to clean the list before we pay,” he said.
He said January 2019 stipends would be paid tomorrow, February 28, 2019, noting that those for December 2018 had been paid.
He added that if anyone had not been paid for November and December 2018, they must have issues to resolve. The Ministry of Finance released GH¢138.6 million for the payment of December 2018 and January 2019 stipends for 99,000 trainees (GH¢69.3 million for each month).
He, therefore, appealed to such persons to visit the website of NaBCo to resolve their challenges electronically. Dr Anyars said that all posted and placed trainees had been asked to fill the Assumption of Duty form, which would require that they provided the details again.
He said 19,000 were yet to be placed but explained that they had been earmarked for some major government projects, such as the digitisation of the Lands Commission and the Births and Deaths Registry.
He explained that some of the trainees posted under the Enterprise Ghana and the Heal Ghana modules were yet to be verified by the professional bodies.
