The National Youth Employment Program is to be overhauled to make it more responsive to the needs of Ghanaians. Officials say the move has become necessary due to what they say are irregularities and anomalies detected especially in the Community Protection module. A Deputy Coordinator, Alhassan Tapsoba, says a house-cleaning program has been launched to restructure the program. This includes the setting up of a permanent office where data on personnel of the Program, especially, the Community Police could be traced, creation of a reliable pool of data and organize workshops for beneficiaries. The National Youth Employment Program was initiated by the erstwhile NPP administration to provide employment for the majority of unemployed Ghanaian youth. It has an estimated hundred thousand beneficiaries engaged in the Community Protection, Health Assistants and Youth in Agriculture modules. Like many government initiatives, the NYEP faces challenges such as unpaid salaries, lack of proper data collection, and job security of beneficiaries due to change of government, among others. Alhassan Tapsoba says government has no intention of scrapping the program. According to him, about 5000 new applicants would be considered for employment next month. Mr Tapsoba is however unhappy about draw-backs due to inefficiencies. He said some people who are not with the Community Police module wear the uniform just to deceive unsuspecting Ghanaians, a situation he describes as illegal. Some Personnel of the Community Police, he claimed, also make arrests on their own without the assistance of police, a situation he says defeats the structure of the program. Mr Tapsoba warns Community Police personnel whose conduct contravenes their service code would be arrested and prosecuted. By: Ohemeng Tawiah/myjoyonline.com/Ghana