The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities in Ghana has threatened to picket at Jubilee House if the government fails to honour its commitment to reserve 5% of public sector employment opportunities for persons with disabilities within two weeks.
The coalition is also demanding financial clearance in the 2027 national budget to facilitate the recruitment of qualified graduates with disabilities into the public sector.
Speaking to Channel One News on Monday, November 9, the convener of the coalition, Gilbert Boateng Agyare, said the planned protest would go ahead if the government fails to address the concerns before the ultimatum expires.
He explained that the coalition had already submitted a list of qualified graduates seeking employment to the government and had been informed that the document had been forwarded to the President.
“We’ve giving government two weeks to act. So if the two weeks elapse and government fails to act, that would be the time that our action can also take place,” he said.
Agyare further disclosed that the coalition had not received any formal engagement from government officials since presenting its latest demands.
He said the group remained hopeful that the government would fulfil its promise by recruiting the qualified graduates into the public sector or making the necessary provision for them in the 2027 budget, which is scheduled to be presented on Thursday.
“We are expecting that government fulfils the promise that they gave us by absorbing those people into the public sector or cater for us in the upcoming budget that is going to be read on Thursday,” he stated.
