MP for Krowor launches Uber Drive Project to Reduce Youth Unemployment
In fulfillment of a campaign promise, the Member of Parliament for Krowor in the Greater Accra Region, Hon Agnes Naa Momo Lartey on Saturday, December 24, 2022, launched an employment action program dubbed “the MP’s Empowerment Project” targeted at youth in the constituency to fight extreme poverty and economic hardship with “Uber-Drive” Vehicles.
Speaking at a short but impressive ceremony to hand over the first batch of Uber Drivers’ vehicles, Hon Naa Momo reiterated her commitment to mobilize the energies and capacities of the youth to minimise the risks to national security posed by rising unemployment.
She said the Uber drive project formed part of her social intervention policy to reduce unemployment among the constituents in fulfillment of a campaign promise she made as a then parliamentary candidate prior to the 2020 general elections.
According to her, during the 2020 election campaigns, she met a lot of constituents, especially the youth and the women groups who expressed their dissatisfaction with the level of neglect by successive governments and other duty-bearers over the years.
As a result, Hon Naa Momo said, she made a solemn promise to work hard to alleviate their plight when voted into office as a Member of Parliament, and behold the constituents bestowed the honour on her on December 7, 2020.
The MP who is a member of the Local Government and Rural Development as well as Gender and Children Committees of Parliament noted that the launch confirmed her commitment to continuing to facilitate an enabling environment that will create thousands of jobs annually.
She stressed that youths should be regarded as a viable investment to yield positive benefits for all spheres of our socio-economic progress, rather than a group targeted for periodic empowerment interventions.
Hon Naa Momo said since she assumed office, she has concentrated efforts on moving the constituency youth development intervention from the empowerment model to a sustainable system, emphasizing that the economic and social consequences of youth unemployment transcend the youth and resulted in missed economic opportunities for the nation.
She however charged the beneficiary clusters to make good of the vehicles to gain good returns for further investment so that the rest of the clusters could benefit, stating, “ I have no control over their use after I have presented them to you. It is up to you to make good use of them, make good sales, and use the proceeds to re-invest so you can buy more of these cars for others. I am not expecting to take the money I spent on these vehicles back. I will rather want to see you buying more cars from these so that others too can benefit.”
The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Emmanuel Nii Ashie Moore, Deputy National Organiser, Kobby Balore, Deputy National Communication Officer, Godwin Ako Gunn took turns to advise the beneficiaries to make a good investment out of the MP effort.
They assured that the next NDC government in 2025 after the general elections in 2014 would roll out programs that would tailor towards the capacity building of the youth for better employment.
Constituency Chairman, Dr. Benjamin Kwame Danso expressed gratitude to the MP for the effort made to alleviate the plight of the suffering constituents, especially the youth, and promised the vehicles would be put into proper use to serve the intended purpose.
A nine-member committee was set up by the constituency executives in collaboration with the Office of MP to scrutinize the program after zoning the 233 Constituency branches into 15 clusters.
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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