New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has described the outcome of a research by the Centre for Socioeconomic Studies (CSS) that over one million people have lost their jobs as useless and bogus.
“Why should people who call themselves educated people come up with such baseless and bogus research? How can you even say one million people have lost their jobs when the NPP have created so many jobs,” he said.
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The Centre for Socioeconomic Studies (CSS) has said over one million Ghanaians have lost their jobs since 2017.
“The CSS, from its study of the situation, found that over a million individuals who contributed significantly to Ghana’s workforce and also served as breadwinners in their families have had to suffer the misery of job loss,” the Centre said in a press release Monday.
Citing a 2017 report, the centre said the job cuts span across the industrial, banking and mining sectors as well as the media and services sectors.
But the MP on Asempa FM’s Eksoii Sen Tuesday said the government has created so many jobs contrary to the findings of the research.
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He said the Akufo-Addo led government has managed to unearth the talents and skills of the youth and have empowered them to contribute substantially to national development.
Citing evidence of government’s commitment to job creation, he announced the creation of a Nation Builders’ Corps (NBC), which was set up to employ at least 100,000 graduates in 2018, across the country.
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Mr Agyapong indicated that the government had also created jobs for young farmers in the cocoa pollination, pruning exercise and supply of improved disease resistant seedlings to farmers under the “Planting for Food and Jobs programme”, a situation he said needs to be commended.