Beneficiaries of the Youth in Afforestation programme under the Forestry Commission was on Friday, May 7, 2021, grouped together at the Ministry of Finance to request payment of their unpaid allowances.
According to the group, they have not been paid for five months.
This is not the first agitation by the group. Somewhere in 2020, the group staged series of demonstrations at the forecourt of the headquarters of the Forestry Commission in Achimota – GIMPA.
The Youth in Afforestation Programme was launched on August 13, 2018, at the Jubilee Park in Kumasi.
It is an initiative by the government to help reduce the rate of youth unemployment.
The youth have been employed to plant trees to restore Ghana’s forest.
Some 100,000 youth are beneficiaries of the programme across the country.
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