FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY November 9, 2026
EIGHT MONTHS OF DECEIT AND EMPTY PROMISES: WE WILL NO LONGER BE SILENCED OR FOOLED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA.
The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities issues this press release to express our utmost indignation, outrage, and contempt for the continuous, systematic deceit meted out to our members by the Government of Ghana.
For eight grueling months, we have engaged this administration in good faith, only to be met with calculated lies, empty assurances, and utter disregard for our dignity and survival.
Our struggle is not a favor we are begging for.
It is a demand for constitutional justice and equal opportunity.
Following our initial demonstration in March 2026, government officials stood before the public and promised to absorb our qualified members into the public workforce. Trusting their word, we suspended our actions. That promise proved to be an outright deception.
Refusing to let our plight be swept under the rug, we organized a second demonstration. Once again, government officials intervened, instructing us to compile and submit a comprehensive list of qualified graduates with disabilities. We complied swiftly, fulfilling every requirement requested of us. Recently, we were informed that this list had been escalated directly to the President of the Republic for action. Yet, weeks have passed, and that assurance also appears to be a sham.
whenever we take to the streets to demand our rights, government representatives rush to the scene with soothing words and hollow pledges simply to dislodge our protests, only to abandon their commitments the moment the media cameras leave. Every single pledge made to this coalition over the past eight months has proven to be totally futile.
We are declaring today that our patience is completely exhausted. 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.
We hereby issue a strict two-week ultimatum, effective immediately, to the Government of Ghana to complete the process of absorbing and employing all qualified graduates on the submitted list into public sector institutions or give us financial clearance in the upcoming budget to be read soon by the finance minister.
Failure to fulfill these demands within the two-week period will leave us with no choice but to deploy our ultimate constitutional right to protest again.
Upon the expiration of this deadline, the Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities will converge at the Jubilee House for a three-day, non-stop, uninterrupted demonstration. We will not vacate the seat of government, nor will we be pacified by emergency meetings or verbal pledges. We will remain at the gates of Jubilee House until every single graduate on our list receives verifiable employment letters.
For eight months, we have endured broken promises, outright deceit, and bureaucratic posturing regarding the employment of our qualified, educated members. We have reached a point where we can no longer remain silent while those in power treat our constitutional rights as optional favors.
We did not let our physical constraints stop us from pursuing higher education. We climbed staircases without ramps, sat through non-inclusive lecture halls, navigated unsupportive environments, and defied every societal expectation to earn our university degrees and diplomas. We did not struggle through school so that we could end up on the streets, begging for hand-outs or feeding on the crumbs of society. We are capable, trained and ready to contribute meaningfully to national development.
Yet, the government continues to marginalize and ignore our list of graduates, leaving us to feel like third-class citizens in our own homeland.
We refuse to accept a fate of perpetual dependency. We want to work, earn a dignified living, and take care of ourselves and our families.
It is for this reason that we make this urgent public call to action to the key opinion leaders, Civil Society Organizations and revered traditional leaders and institutions in the country:
We humbly call on His Royal Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene
His Royal Majesty, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, Okyenhene
His Royal Majesty, Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II, Dormaahene, The Leadership and Members of the National House of Chiefs:
We wish to contend without any modicum of doubt that your Ancestral thrones have always stood for fairness, justice, and the protection of the vulnerable. We appeal to your royal thrones to speak truth to power and remind the government that the sons and daughters of your traditional areas who live with disabilities deserve dignified livelihoods.
To Our Eminent Religious Fathers and Leaders such as The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu
The Christian Council of Ghana,
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference,
The National Peace Council,
You teach us daily about righteousness, human dignity, and justice.
True peace cannot exist in the absence of equity. We ask you to add your authoritative voices to our cause and demand that the administration fulfills its sworn promises.
We also call on H.E. Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Main Opposition Leader,
All Civil Society Organizations (CSOs),the council of State, Human Rights Advocates, and Governance Watchdogs to note that this issue transcends party politics.
It is a matter of basic human rights and social justice.
So we call on the opposition leadership and CSOs across the country to rally behind us and hold the state accountable.
We ask these revered leaders not to remain neutral in the face of this injustice. We implore you to intervene directly and call on the President of the Republic to immediately direct the release and posting of our qualified graduates as submitted in our official roster.
If the moral leaders of our land remain silent, the government will continue to sweep our plight under the rug, forcing us to execute our planned three-day uninterrupted demonstration at the Jubilee House at the expiration of our two-week deadline.
We do not want sympathy or charity. We demand opportunity, fairness, and justice. Rally behind your brothers and sisters today so that tomorrow, persons with disabilities in Ghana can stand tall with dignity.
Enough of the empty talk. Act now, or prepare to meet us at Jubilee House.
Signed, GILBERT BOATENG AGYARE
THE GROUP CONVENER:
CONTACT 0244061940.
Felix Baah the president of the group
0544295020.
Emmanuel Asiedu secretary
0243837604.
