THE Northern Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Mohammed Abew, has stated that recent media reports to the effect that 10,000 youth in Tamale had defected from the NDC to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) were unfounded.
He told the Daily Graphic in Tamale that the move was a strategy by a few aggrieved youth in the area to compel the leadership of the NDC to provide jobs for them.
According to Mr Abew he had met with some aggrieved youth in Tamale and asked them to write down their names for consideration in future recruitment exercises under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).
“As far as I am concerned I heard 87 group of youths on a Tamale based FM station claiming they had defected from the NDC to the NPP”.
According to Mr Abew some of the youths making such claims did not have the requisite qualification that could earn them jobs under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).
“In fact as I speak to you now none have been able to provide a certificate to warrant their job placement under the NYEP”, he stated.
Mr Abew,who is also the regional co-ordinator of the NYEP, observed that the challenge of providing the youth in Tamale with jobs was huge.
He expressed optimism that when the road maintenance module of the NYEP rolls out by next week, some of them would be considered and recruited but advised them to develop themselves to enable them to fit into the job market.
The organiser noted that the rehabilitation of the Tamale Teaching hospital was likely to provide more jobs for the unemployed youth in Tamale and entreated them to exercise restraint.
“Those who think that they can use such tactics to discredit the NDC government are not being sincere to themselves; some perceive the government to be slow which is not true because the economy for the first 20 months had been stabilised with more capital injected into it.” he contended.
Mr Abew further intimated that it was not possible for every youth to get a job at the same time, adding that some would get theirs today while others would get theirs later.
According to him the Changli Electoral Area where the aggrieved youth were coming from had benefited immensely from the NYEP programme compared to other suburbs of the metropolis and described their action as uncalled for.
In a related development, the NDC, has noted with grave concern the continuous attempt by the NPP and their collaborators in the media to create the erroneous impression that the NDC is becoming unpopular, by orchestrating defection stories.
The latest the party noted, was a story aired by an Accra FM station alleging that 10,000 NDC supporters in the Northern Region have defected to the NPP.
“We wish to state unequivocally that the story is not only false, fallacious and mischievous but is also a demonstration of shoddy, faulty and irresponsible journalism”, it said.
A statement signed by Mr Richard Quashigah, NDC National Propaganda Secretary, pointed out that the FM radio station reporter who put out the story had admitted that his story was only based on what an executive member of the Northern Region branch of the NPP told him.
In the said news report, the reporter sought to create the impression that the NDC Northern Regional Secretary, Imoro Yussifu Alhassan, justified the reasons for the defection, a move Mr Quashigah pointed out was not true.
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