Some persons engaged as community teaching assistants by the National Youth Employment Program in Juapong in the Volta region are complaining they have not been paid their allowances for close to eight months now. They are unhappy no explanation has been given for the delay. One of them who gave his name only as Anthony says attempts to get NYEP officials to pay the monies have proved futile. He told Joy News he and his colleagues can no longer cope with the situation. “Some of us who are in rented rooms, our landlords are threatening to sack us,” he said. But the Deputy National Co-ordinator-In-charge of Research and Communication at the NYEP, Ibrahim Mutala said they cannot be blamed for the misery of the teaching assistants. According to him, the teaching assistants ought to have returned to the NYEP, letters signed by the various headteachers of their schools confirming they had reported for duty. Those letters, he said, would then have been used to compute the allowances of the teachers. In the absence of such confirmation letters, the national secretariat of the NYEP could not process the allowances of the affected teaching assistants even though the NYEP gave them the appointment letters. Source: Joy News/Ghana