NDC government will pay NABCO Beneficiaries – NDC’s Abdallah

The Upper East Regional Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jonathan Abdallah Salifu has said the incoming NDC government will consider the possibilities of paying all outstanding arrears owed beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corp (NABCO).

NABCO, a brainchild of the outgoing New Patriotic Party birthed in 2018, ended in 2021 with a backlog of arrears owed beneficiaries.

Appearing on the Big Mike Breakfast Show on Tuesday 17th December, 2024, Abdallah intimated that the NDC as a people-centric government will revisit the initiative and pay the beneficiaries the arrears for the work done.

“They can keep the data, when we come, we will validate and pay them. Obviously, they are Ghanaians who have worked, so I don’t think President Mahama will refuse to pay them”.

Abdallah said that the outgoing NPP government’s failure to clear the arrears despite several calls showed it was inconsiderate. He was of the view that this action coupled with many other major issues was the reason Ghanaians voted out the government.

“Their inability to pay NABCO Beneficiaries also contributed to their defeat, these were people they engaged to work and support for a little while, they themselves decided to extend their contract after it expired, and they refused to pay what was due them”

The Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) programme was introduced by the NPP government in 2018, to address the teeming graduate unemployment. The focus of the initiative was on augmenting public service delivery in health, education, agriculture, technology, governance and drive revenue mobilization and collection.

The initiative was a three-year contract entered between the government and beneficiaries. The government, however, later extended the contract by one year after its expiration in 2021.

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