Following the deletion of some 16,000 people from the payroll of the Youth Employment Agency, there has been a massive transfer of workers to restructure the agency.
The 16,000 names were deleted from the payroll after an internal audit and is said to have saved the economy GHC20 million.
“A total of 16,839 beneficiaries have been deleted from the payroll, and this has saved the taxpayer as much as twenty million, two hundred and six thousand, eight hundred cedis,” Justine Kodua Frimpong, the acting chief executive officer of the agency has said.
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Of this number, 2,716 beneficiaries did not have appointment letters while another set 4,681 people had vacated their posts but were receiving salaries. 9,442 beneficiaries were also not within the age range required to be part of the youth employment initiative.
According to Frimpong, the agency will make a decision about the fate of beneficiaries without letters of appointments within a month.