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President John Dramani Mahama has promised that the next NDC administration his watch will train about 10,000 female head porters popularly known as \u2018Kayayei\u2019 for employment if he is retained after the December 7, 2016 general election.<\/p>\n

Kayayei, an ethnic Ga word, is a trade often undertaken by thousands of young female adults who migrate from the northern Ghana to cities like Accra and Kumasi.<\/p>\n

The practice has been in existence in Ghana for decades and children between ages 15 to 18 and\u00a0adults 45 years and above, engage in what is described as a hand-to-mouth job.<\/p>\n

Analysts have suggested the need for government to make the northern part of Ghana economically viable and habitable to minimize the migration.<\/p>\n

But presenting the highlights of the National Democratic Congress\u2019 (NDC) 2016 manifesto in Accra on Tuesday, President Mahama said he intends to employ to about 10,000 of the head porters to give them a decent living.<\/p>\n

According to him, the Kayayei will be part of a new employment model under the newly established Youth Employment Agency (YEA).<\/p>\n

Available research data indicates that some of these Kayayei work in chop-bars (local restaurants), hawk on the streets, assist market women in trading, act as shop assistants and engage in other domestic chores, sometimes menial,\u00a0just to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

Most of them are considered to be non-literate, school dropouts, or young females who have escaped from outmoded socio-cultural practices such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation (female circumcision) among others.<\/p>\n

They live in the streets and in open places whiles engaging in menial jobs such as carrying of heavy loads on their heads.<\/p>\n

\"Nana
Nana Akufo-Addo and his running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ll provide free hostel facilities for Kayayei-Nana Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 general election, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, had also promised to provide free hostel accommodation for Kayayei if elected as president.<\/p>\n

This, Nana Akufo-Addo explained, will give decent accommodation to the Kayayei and save them from sleeping under perilous living conditions.<\/p>\n

Nana Addo\u2019s promise is an insult to Kayayei-Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s promise to accommodate the Kayayei, President Mahama told the NPP flagbearer to find a better way of alleviating the hardships of the head potters.<\/p>\n

He described Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s promise as the \u201cmost insulting\u201d pledge to the Kayayei.<\/p>\n

\"President
President John Dramani Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Addressing supporters of the governing NDC at Savelugu in the Northern Region, President Mahama said the promise to provide free temporary housing for such vulnerable girls is insulting to the dignity of northern girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you (Nana Addo) are desperate to win, you are promising free everything; I will give free healthcare to children under 18 years. It is being implemented already\u2026He says he will give free hostels to Kayayei. That is the most insulting one.”<\/p>\n

\u201cSo our girls should remain there and continue to carry people\u2019s goods. If you have a sickness, you must go to the cause of the sickness; you don\u2019t treat the symptom\u2026So if you want to solve the problem of Kayayei, then you will do what NDC is doing. We\u2019ve been to the South; we are registering our little sisters who are Kayayei there. We are putting them in training, we are teaching them how to be dressmakers, hairdressers, how to be able to do work with their hands, we are giving them sewing machines and other equipment and then we are bringing them back to come and settle so that they can work for themselves,\u201d President Mahama stated.<\/p>\n

_<\/p>\n

By: Awudu Mahama\/ghelections.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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