{"id":361266,"date":"2017-10-12T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=361266"},"modified":"2017-10-12T07:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:03:19","slug":"4000-agric-college-graduates-to-be-employed-in-2018-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/4000-agric-college-graduates-to-be-employed-in-2018-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000 Agric college graduates to be employed in 2018 – Gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has announced that it will employ over 4, 000 graduates from agricultural colleges in the country\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n
The Ministry also announced that it had tabled the requests from the students for the restoration of their allowances before Cabinet.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made following agitations from students of five of the colleges, who besieged the premises of the Agric Ministry<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in Accra on Wednesday, demanding the immediate release of their allowances.<\/p>\n The Agric Minister, Owusu Afriyie Akoto, who addressed the crowd, said earlier that \u201ccabinet has its own procedure for considering such demands, and I can assure you that your demand is seriously being considered.\u201d<\/p>\n In\u00a0an interview on Eyewitness News <\/strong>later on Wednesday, the Minister\u2019s Press Secretary, Issah Alhassan, stated that, they had been cleared by Parliament to employ over 4, 000 graduates from the colleges who had been without jobs since 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the past six years, no student from the Agric College has ever been employed into the public service. Now the Minister has told them emphatically that cabinet has agreed that from next year, almost 4, 000 students would be automatically employed into the public service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe have a backlog of over 4, 000 students at home that have never been employed. The Minister has ensured that Cabinet has approved that all of them would be employed. We need them, the issue is that, if we had enough human resources in terms of extension services, probably we\u2019d have solved the Planting for Food and Jobs deficits and armyworm issues earlier than what was witnessed. There are so many plans in place to get students that have completed and those about to complete automatically employed.\u201d<\/p>\n The complaints of the students were sparked by the restoration of allowances of trainee nurses<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.<\/p>\n The agric students, whose allowances were scrapped along with the nursing trainees under the Mahama administration, argue that they are being discriminated against by the government despite the assurances.<\/p>\n