Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Malik Basintale, has announced that beneficiaries of the agency's sanitation module will soon receive more than a 300 percent increase in their allowances under a new waste management agreement.
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Basintale explained that the decision comes after the suspension of YEA's contract with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, which had been paying beneficiaries GH¢258 monthly-an amount widely criticized as woefully inadequate. "When I took office, I swore by my late grandfather's grave that no contract would be signed to pay GH¢258. "That figure is unacceptable in this modern era.
In any future contract, we will not go below the minimum wage.
