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The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu,
has said that the employment issues that the nation is facing can be attributed
to poor choices made by the former Mahama administration during its tenure.
According to him, the former Mahama-led administration agreed
to various terms and conditions offered by the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), which are detrimental to the development of Ghana's youth.
Mr. Boadu, who was speaking at the Volta Regional NPP Annual
Delegates Conference in Ho, promised that the Akufo-Addo government will address
the country's job crisis via industrialisation if elected president.
“Yes, there are challenges with employment and it is because
of what we inherited. If you have a government that cannot have integrity in
its projects and programmes and you just surrender the country to IMF under
such conditions that are inimical, particularly to the betterment of our youth
for close to 5 years. Even the NABCO that we brought that has taken close to
100,000 people is not enough.”
The National Democratic Congress, on the other hand, is of the
opposite opinion. As a result of their five-year tenure in office, the NPP
government, according to the NDC, could have accomplished much more.
“Yes, there are challenges with employment and it is because
of what we inherited. If you have a government that cannot have integrity in
its projects and programmes and you just surrender the country to IMF under
such conditions that are inimical, particularly to the betterment of our youth
for close to 5 years. Even the NABCO that we brought that has taken close to
100,000 people is not enough.”
The National Democratic Congress, on the other hand, is of the
opposite opinion. As a result of their five-year tenure in office, the NPP
government, according to the NDC, could have accomplished much more.
Mr Boadu's statement, according to Sammy Gyamfi, National
Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), "shows
that, “the incumbent NPP- Bawumia-Akufo-Addo government is totally clueless and
hopelessly incompetent relative to job creation.”
He added that, John Boadu’s comment reveals that the NPP
government “have no business being where they are.”
“This is a group of people who while in opposition in 2016,
made several promises to the youth and people of this country that they were
going to create sustainable jobs when elected.
“The people listened and gave them the mandate almost five
years ago, now they’ve had access to more resources than any government in the
history of this country, they’ve had more tax revenue than any government in
the history of this country, they’ve borrowed more than any government in the
history of this country, they’ve even had access to three oil fields. So if
five years after inheriting power, they are still blaming the previous
NDC-Mahama administration for the high rate of unemployment in this country,
then it is because they are clueless, hopelessly incompetent and totally
useless and they have no business governing this country,” he stressed.
Regarding the IMF's alleged terms and conditions, Mr Gyamfi
stated that, “the IMF programme we joined in 2016 didn’t have any
conditionality about employment freeze.”
According to him, the programme was scheduled to end in the
year 2017, “they rather came and extended it for another one year. In fact,
they rather benefitted from the subsequent tranches of that facility.”
“So how can you come and extend a programme you claim is the
reason for the high unemployment situation we have in the country?” he asked.
Source:
ghananews.hrforum.uk
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