Unemployed graduates with disabilities say they will camp outside Jubilee House for three days unless the government provides public-sector jobs within two weeks.
The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities is demanding either immediate appointments for its members or dedicated financial clearance in the forthcoming 2027 Budget to implement the promised 5 per cent public-sector employment quota for persons with disabilities.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the coalition’s convener, Gilbert Boateng Agyare, said the group would not abandon its planned protest without proof that its members had been employed.
“We will not vacate the seat of government, nor will we be pacified by emergency meetings or verbal pledges,” the statement said.
“We will remain at the gates of Jubilee House until every single graduate on our list receives verifiable employment letters.”
The coalition said its members first demonstrated in March 2026 before suspending the protest after government officials promised to help secure their recruitment.
When those assurances did not result in appointments, the graduates held a second protest and petitioned the presidency in August. They submitted a list of qualified graduates and were told by officials that it had been forwarded to President John Dramani Mahama.
“Every single pledge made to this coalition over the past eight months has proven to be totally futile,” Agyare said.
“We will no longer tolerate being used for photo opportunities or pacified by meaningless political rhetoric while qualified citizens with disabilities languish in enforced poverty and unemployment.”
The graduates said they had completed their studies despite inaccessible university facilities, including lecture halls that were difficult to reach and staircases without ramps.
“We do not want sympathy or charity. We demand opportunity, fairness, and justice,” the statement added.
The coalition called on traditional, religious and state leaders to intervene. Those named were the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II; the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin; the Dormaahene, Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II; the National House of Chiefs; National Chief Imam Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu; the Christian Council of Ghana; the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference; the National Peace Council; the Council of State; and former Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The presidency had not responded to the ultimatum by Sunday.
However, Vice-President Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang reaffirmed on November 2 that the government was introducing a 5 per cent employment quota for persons with disabilities, alongside free tertiary education.
At an earlier consultation held at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sector Minister Dr Agnes Naa Momo Lartey and National Council on Persons with Disabilities Executive Secretary Edwin Kweku Andoh told Agyare’s delegation that officials were compiling a unified national database.
The database is intended to match unemployed graduates with disabilities to job opportunities and District Assemblies Common Fund disability disbursements.
