Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities give government one-week ultimatum over GES recruitment

The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities has given the government a one-week ultimatum to recruit qualified persons with disabilities who applied during the recent Ghana Education Service (GES) recruitment exercise, or face an indefinite, peaceful occupation of Jubilee House, the Ministry of Finance, and the GES headquarters.

In a statement signed by its Convener, Gilbert Boateng Agyare, the coalition accused the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service of failing to implement the government's commitment to reserve at least five per cent of public sector jobs for persons with disabilities.

It therefore called on the President to remove the Minister for Education and the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service for allegedly failing to implement the directive, while urging the GES to issue appointment letters to qualified applicants with disabilities and the Ministry of Finance to grant financial clearance for their recruitment into other public institutions.