The Youth Employment Agency, yesterday, welcomed its new Chief Executive Officer, Kofi Baah Agyepong, warmly as he began his first day at work in the government agency responsible for skills training and internship modules for the teeming youth to transit from unemployment to employment.
Mr. Kofi Baah Agyepong expressed appreciation for the warm reception received from the staff and assured of a great management and staff collaboration to implement the programmes of the Agency and to further create employment for the youth of Ghana. He assured the former CEO of a continuation of the reformation agenda that had brought a renewed hope to the youth of Ghana.
The staff who were visibly happy to know of the humble-but-principled nature of their new CEO and his will to continue and improve on the fortunes of the Agency, expressed their gratitude in seeing the smooth transition and the assurance of a continue leadership.
In his introduction, the former Executive Officer (CEO) of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Lawyer Justin Frimpong Kodua, tasked the staff to lend the same support, cooperation and conducive environment he enjoyed to his successor for him to also succeed at the Agency.
He further assured that even with his new role as General Secretary he would remain an integral part of the Agency and promote the Agency’s programmes at the level cabinet. He was extremely grateful to all stakeholders for the support he enjoyed during his six-year tenure as CEO.
Handing over documents officially to the new CEO, Lawyers Kodua, urged a detailed assessment for review and continuation of the programs and modules rolled out so far in order to improve upon them for the benefit of the unemployed youth.
The CEO urged the staff to disabuse their minds of any perceived reassignments as a result of the change.
For Mr Kofi Baah Agyepong, his main preoccupation was about achieving results and promised to meet the staff to evaluate their individual roles and how best to improve upon them. Another important issue for the CEO was attitude to work as regards commitment to the course of youth development.
He believes a great attitude by all staff would obviously inure to the mutual benefit of the Agency and its key stakeholders, beneficiaries and jobseekers.
Mr Agyepong continued the day with a meeting with the governing Board of the Agency, led by Rev. Mrs. Anita Kusi Boateng.
