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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88421, member: 27"]
Youth-focused agencies just got completely cut from Ghana's GHS 8.7 billion development fund, and the Ghana Youth Federation is not having it.

GYF calls the exclusion straight-up unlawful
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[*]Sherif Ghali condemned dropping YEA and NYA from the 2026 DACF.
[*]Both agencies exist through actual Acts of Parliament.
[*]Ghali rejected any excuse of technical oversight or admin error.
[*]The Federation labeled it a direct policy contradiction.
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Youth unemployment pressure is already visible
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[*]Massive application surges hit security-service recruitment recently.
[*]GYF tied that desperation to gutted youth-support funding.
[*]Young people lack employment and skills-training pipelines.
[*]The disconnect between government promises and spending is glaring.
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Two demands landed on the government's desk
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[*]Immediate revision of the 2026 DACF formula before disbursement.
[*]Ring-fenced funding for both NYA and YEA is non-negotiable.
[*]High-level coordination between Finance and Youth ministries got requested.
[*]The Office of the President should broker that collaboration directly.
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GYF is ready to escalate if needed
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[*]Parliament's Speaker and MPs got called to exercise oversight.
[*]The Federation pledged to exhaust all constitutional and civic avenues.
[*]The current trajectory was labeled economically and politically unsustainable.
[*]Ghali's statement framed youth funding as a national obligation.
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