Registration of unemployed ends

Over 2000 unemployed and underemployed persons have so far registered in the on-going National registration of the underemployed unemployed and in the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis.

They are made up of hawkers, drivers' mate, drivers, hairdressers, seamstresses, tailors, craftsmen, potters and shoeshine boys, Miss Olivia Opoku-Adomah, an economic planning officer at the regional administration and the co-ordinator of the registration exercise said in an interview at Sekondi on Thursday.

She explained that though the exercise ends on Thursday, there would be a "mopping up" to enable those in the long queues to register.

Miss Opoku-Adomah added that though the entire exercise was peaceful and orderly, four policemen were however sent to the Takoradi labour office and Sekondi sub-metropolitan registration centres to restore order and to control the crowd.

"This actually enabled us to register a large number of people who would have been neglected", she added. A visit to the Apremdo, Sekondi sub-metropolitan assembly and Takoradi centres still showed a long queue of anxious young men and women ready to register.

Kwesi Bonful, a 27-year-old truck pusher who spoke to the GNA at Apremdo appealed to government to extend the exercise for another week to enable others to benefit from any future employment opportunity by registering.