The Chief Executive Officer for the Nation Builders Corp (NABCo), Dr. Ibrahim Anyars has claimed government has permanently employed over 9,000 trainees placed on various NABCo modules.

The number, he argued is indicative of the good work the program is doing and its success in achieving the set target of ensuring permanent employment for the teeming unemployed Ghanaian youth.

He said the program has helped to give the trainees confidence and relevant skills to tender in job applications that have ensured that over 9000 of them are now employed.

The Scheme is said to have engaged in excess of the targeted 100,000 unemployed Ghanaian youth for a 36-month period amidst criticisms.

Speaking to Citi News, Dr. Anyars stressed that the engagement of the over nine thousand trainees into mainstream employment justifies the essence of the scheme.

“A lot of these guys have already transitioned into some kind of permanent employment. If you look at what the NABCO was meant to do, that is to offer temporary employment besides the work and learning scheme that can enable all these talented trainees to get confident at making some applications to gain permanent employment. And for us to achieve in excess of 9000 NABCO trainees already, within eight months, it tells you that something good is happening,” he said in an interview on Eyewitness News on Monday.

Dr. Anyars further indicated that the vacancy created by those who have gained permanent employment elsewhere will give room for more unemployed graduates to be recruited into the program
“We have room for replacement but not recruitment of another 100,000,” he said.