Kumasi, Jan 30, GNA - Mr Maxwell Kofi Jumah, the Member of Parliament for Asokwa, has said people should desist from politicising development projects the government initiates "since such a practice hampers efforts at achieving national development goals." He said it was important for people to commit resources to support government-initiated projects and programmes. "This will ensure a speedy growth of Ghana's economy whiles improving the living conditions of the people," Mr Jumah said at a day's orientation course organised for 60 short listed health extension workers in the Asokwa sub-metro in Kumasi at the weekend. The applicants were short listed under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).

Mr Jumah appealed to the youth to take advantage of the NYEP because "it is the panacea to the high unemployment rate among the youth."

He commended the government for introducing the programme and other related development projects to address the socio-economic needs of the country and expressed the hope that the beneficiaries would be serious with their chosen modules to ensure the programme's success. Mr Kwame Owusu-Bempah, the Co-ordinator in-charge of the Asokwa sub-metro NYEP, said 25 people had been engaged under the sanitation and waste management modules of the programme.