Ghanaians who worked for the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) but were not paid their allowances have declared a one-day fast and prayer in order to force the government to pay them.
The displeased trainees have set Wednesday, November 9, 2022, as a date to pray for God’s intervention to change the government’s heart and give them their end-of-month allowance.
According to the trainees, due to the current economic hardship in Ghana, they will fast and pray for God to touch the hearts of our leaders.
It stated “Because of the suffering, NABCo trainees will fast and pray on Wednesday, November 9th, 2022, [for] God to touch the hearts of our leaders, causing them to hear our cries and pay us… NABCO trainees gave their lives for Ghana for 46 months (3 years and 10 months) ” Unfortunately, after 46 months of sacrifice, we were told to return home. The government owed us 10 months’ stipends at the time.”
They also stated that “We pleaded for a long time, but the government insulted us by only providing us with a one-month stipend. Only God knows how much suffering these innocent trainees endured for 46 months and continue to endure.
“Therefore, we are turning to God for his intervention by fasting and prayers on Wednesday, 9th November 2022 for God to change the heart of these leaders towards us in this difficult time for them to pay what is due us.”
“It is written in the book of Psalm 61:1, (Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.) and in Proverbs chapter 21:1 that (The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases).
“We implore every trainee to be part of this one-day fasting and prayers. We believe by the end of this fasting and prayers, God will pave the way to where there seems to be no way,” the beneficiaries of NaBCo added.
Meanwhile, the NaBCo program, a government initiative to address graduate unemployment in order to solve social problems, has ended.
NaBCo was supposed to run for three years but was extended for another year.
The program aimed to recruit 100,000 recent graduates.
Despite the government’s claim that it invested approximately GH2.2 billion in the policy, a number of corps members complained about the government’s failure to pay allowances.
