The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities have served notice that they are protesting at the Jubilee House today, August 19, 2026.
According to the Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities, the protest is due to the government’s failure to fulfil the legal requirement to recruit persons with disabilities into public institutions.
They stressed that they are protesting inadequate representation of persons with disabilities in recent public-sector recruitment exercises.
They revealed that the Coalition submitted a verified list of 200 qualified graduates with disabilities for consideration during the recent recruitment exercise conducted by the Ghana Education Service (GES), but none were employed.
The group is calling on the Ministry of Finance to provide financial clearance to facilitate the recruitment and deployment of its members to various government institutions.
According to the group, the development raises serious concerns about the implementation of the legal provisions intended to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Speaking to Citi News, convenor of the coalition, Gilbert Boateng Agyare stated, “We want the Finance Ministry to issue 400 to 500 financial clearances to help deploy our people to the various government institutions. Recently, GES did a recruitment of about 7,000 people, and we submitted about 200 names to GES and nothing happened, and so we think that is repugnant.
“So why can’t we go to the Jubilee House to let the president know the realities faced by persons with disabilities?. We think that if these financial clarifications are given, definitely our people are going to be catered for.”
Meanwhile, the Minister for Youth Development and Empowerment, George Opare-Addo, has said the John Mahama government is set to launch a domestic care economy programme next year which will create about 100,000 jobs for Ghanaian youths.
According to George Opare-Addo, the move forms part of government’s broader efforts to tackle youth unemployment and create decent and sustainable employment opportunities.
He disclosed that the government remains committed to reducing unemployment by the end of President John Dramani Mahama’s four-year term.
George Opare Addo admitted that youth unemployment has recorded a slight increase but attributed the challenge partly to Ghana’s growing youth population.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) event in Accra on Thursday, August 13, Opare-Addo stated, “Next year, under the YEA, we’ll be launching the domestic care economy, and that alone is supposed to employ close to 100,000 young people. Clearly, clearly, we will reduce the unemployment rate”.
George Opare Addo expressed confidence that the planned intervention, and other programmes being implemented by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), will contribute significantly to reducing unemployment among Ghanaian youths.
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