Vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed that the Nana Addo-led government has created over two million jobs over the last three and half years.
Dr. Bawumia said these jobs were created both in the public and private formal sectors through policy initiatives of the Akufo-Addo’s government. He said the implementation of policies such as Planting for food and jobs, National Builder’s Corp (NABCO) and National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan among others have provided many jobs for Ghanaians in the public sector while the revival of the Obuasi mine of Anglogold Ashanti among others have created significant number of jobs in the private sector.
Dr. Bawumia stated that Obuasi mine of Anglogold Ashanti alone created about 4,163 jobs from June, 2018 to June 2020 following its revival in addition to the creation of over two hundred and fifty thousand other private formal sector jobs as result of government’s job creation policies for the sector.
“We have created over two million jobs in the public and private formal sectors since 2017,” he said adding “our policies have also led to significant job creation by the private sector, for example, through the revival of the Obuasi Mine of Anglogold Ashanti.”
Speaking at an NPP Youth Wing meeting in Accra to mark International Youth Day, the vice president stated that these policy initiatives were implemented to address the employment needs of the Ghanaian youth thereby putting the youth at the forefront of national development. He said the NPP government understands the needs of young people and has demonstrated its understanding through the implementation of these policies.
On what president Akufo-Addo’s second term holds for the youth, he said “His second term will, by the grace of God, be transformational for this country with the youth at the centre of that transformation.”
Dr. Bawumia also accused former president Mahama of failing the youth under his four year rule of the country. He said the mismanagement of the economy by the ex-president’s administration brought hardships on the youth in several ways including unemployment. Mr. Mahama, he said, after worsening the living conditions of the youth when he had the opportunity to improve their living conditions is going about making promises as if he has never being president before. This he stated surprises him. The vice president argued that Mr. Mahama is incapable of fulfilling such promises he is making.
Former president has, as part of his bid to return to the presidency, promised to create over a million jobs in his four tenure if he is elected in the December polls. He also announced a 10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan which he said would deliver jobs to young people.
But to Dr. Bawumia, the former president cannot be trusted to deliver on these and many other promises he is making.
