General News of Wednesday, 2 May 2018Source: classfmonline.com‘GH600m for NaBCO’ - GovernmentKojo Oppong Nkrumah is Deputy Minister of InformationThe Government of Ghana has budgeted GHC600 million for the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCO) initiative, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, a Deputy Minister of Information, has said. President Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday launched NaBCO, which will employ, in this year alone, 100,000 young men and women to assist in the public sector service delivery needs of Ghana. But reacting to the claims of Mr Ibrahim on the same programme, Mr Oppong Nkrumah noted that the claims of Mr Ibrahim showed that he did not read the budget statement. “There is no need to argue over this, just pick the government’s budget statement and find out whether or not the government didn’t budget for the programme. “An amount of GHC600million was earmarked for the project, and, so, I am shocked that Mr Ibrahim is making such claims.

Source: GhanaWeb May 02, 2018 13:41 UTC