The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Enterprise Support(YES) Fund, Kojo Adu Asare has been relieved of his post.
It is unclear whether Mr. Adu Asare’s sacking is related to his role as head of the one of the Committees that executed the plan for Ghana’s participation at the 2014 World Cup.
Ghana’s appearance at the Brazil 2014 World Cup tournament in June was hit with a series of scandals leading to the early exit of the Black Stars from the tournament.
Several people including the Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe called on President Mahama to dismiss Mr. Adu Asare after he admitted his involvement in the Black Stars’ poor showing in Brazil.
[contextly_sidebar id=”eQOexlsYWnqJewjLur2e7xd0p6zxbnfj”]“If the gentleman who …had a simple objective of attracting corporate funds and using it for something else will be the same gentleman that will go and sit clearly on this YES fund, I think it borders on issues of integrity. I will advise him to resign from the YES thing immediately,” said Franklin Cudjoe in an interview with Citi News.
The Minister for Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, confirmed to CitiNews that the President Mahama has fired Mr. Adu Asare.
“Hon Adu Asare is actually a Presidential staffer and he was asked to help set up the YES Fund and after setting it up, the substantive person in the person of Ms Hajia Boadi has been asked to manage the YES Fund but Hon Asare remains a Presidential staffer and he has actually taken Ms Boadi through the systems in place and she has taken over the management of the YES programme and Hon Adu Asare has reverted to his normal duties as a Presidential staffer,” he further clarified.
The YES fund is a Government of Ghana programme initiated by President John Dramani Mahama with a ten million Ghana cedis (GH¢10,000,000) seed fund to assist young Ghanaians with creative and innovative business ideas and plans to become entrepreneurs.
The YES Fund former CEO was just appointed into the office two months ago to head the Secretariat of YES after President John Mahama launched the initiative in August.
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana