The Daily Graphic supports the steps taken by government to resolve the teething challenges facing the National youth employment programme. This the paper notes can make it a source of sustainable employment and incomes for the youth. The Graphic therefore welcomes the move by government to engage in a head count exercise to eliminate ghost names in the programmes pay voucher as well as their agents in other state institutions.
The Ghanaian Observer expresses surprise that all the threats issued by government to pull down unauthorised building and those in waterways have not been carried out. In the paper’s opinion until these threats are carried out, the yearly cycle of destruction of lives and property as a result of floods will continue. The paper believes that it is time officials who allowed people to build on waterways are made to face the full rigour of the law.
The Ghanaian Times on the other hand welcomes the bold steps taken by government to demolish buildings in waterways without human face. The exercise the paper notes will partly solve the perennial floods in the capital city. The Times however sounds a note of caution saying fighting the canker goes beyond pulling down physical structures. It says arresting the situation calls for attitudinal change through sustained education to keep the environment clean and ensuring that chocked gutters is always drained.
