Bawumia launches Business and Employment Assistance programme

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the Government’s latest youth employment initiative, the Business and Employment Assistance Programme.

He launched the initiative in Sunyani on Monday, December 11.

The initiative, driven by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), seeks to support 10,000 businesses owned by young Ghanaians, to employ 20,000 youth, whose salaries will be paid by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), he said.

The jobs expected to be created under the initiative will add to the 2.1 million jobs already created, he said.

This, he added, will help to sustain and grow these businesses, as well as provide job opportunities.

“The Business and Employment Assistance Programme and other youth interventions under the YEA and other agencies, underline our government’s commitment to creating more jobs and opportunities to the youth, in addition to the 2.1m jobs created by the government in the past seven years in the public and private sectors respectively,” the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said.

This morning, I launched the Government’s latest business and youth intervention, the Business and Employment Assistance Programme in Sunyani.

The initiative, driven by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), seeks to support 10,000 businesses owned by young Ghanaians, to employ… pic.twitter.com/AOhHGLWCtC

— Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (@MBawumia) December 11, 2023