Beneficiaries of the Youth in Afforestation are set to embark on a sit-down strike on Friday 26th November 2021 to agitate a 5-month unpaid allowance.
According to the personnel, government has failed to pay them their allowances since July 2021.
Speaking to the media, the personnel charged government to provide good working conditions for them if it wants to the country’s forest reserves to grow and maintain its Greening Ghana Agenda.
The group says it has notified its membership to proceed on a sit-down indefinite industrial strike following their demonstration that is scheduled to take place on Friday.
It would be recalled that the group threatened to embark on a similar exercise in May this year as well as in 2020 over unpaid allowances whiles also demanding for better working conditions.
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The Youth in Afforestation Programme was launched on August 13, 2018, at the Jubilee Park in Kumasi in line with the NPP’s 2016 manifesto commitment of reforestation, forest rehabilitation, and forest protection activities.
It is an initiative to help reduce the rate of youth unemployment while building more trees.
The youth were been employed to plant trees to restore Ghana’s forest.
Over 100,000 youth were employed for the programme across the country.
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