Graduates of Sanitation Brigade should not feel demeaned - NPP Vice Chair

Graduates from tertiary institutions in the country who will be getting employment under the government’s Sanitation Brigade should not feel demeaned, Second Vice Chairman of the Eastern Region of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has counseled.

“I have worked in a warehouse before and when I started working in that house I was cleaning toilets”, Nana FreduahOfori-Atta revealed on TV3 New Day.

“There is nothing to be shy about because it is part of my history and it earned me money”, he revealed during a panel discussion on some government policies to be rolled out.

“People with families leave this country where they own farms and go to Britain and America to go and clean toilets”, the NPP man contrasted.

His advice comes at time the Finance Minister Ken Ofori- Atta in the 2018 budget statement told Parliament the government from next year, government will employ graduates from tertiary institutions to become sanitary inspectors.

According to the government, it will form part of the move to reduce high rate of graduate unemployment the country is presently faced with.

But some communicators of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) believe employing graduates as sanitation officers is demeaning and wondered if these were the jobs the NPP government prior to assuming power in trumpeted it was going to create.