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Our administration has employed 350k people in the public sector in 2yrs - Dr Bawumia

By Mutala Yakubu
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
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Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has employed 350,000 Ghanaians in the public sector in two years.

He admitted that despite the high unemployment rate in the country they have been able to create some jobs for Ghanaians to alleviate the situation.

Dr Bawumia was speaking at the launch of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) Job Centre at the Bank of Ghana Auditorium at the University of Ghana in Accra on Wednesday, October 2, 2019.

“We’ve implemented a Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) which has employed 100,000 graduates, who, otherwise, would have been sitting at home and this is a step in building the job skills of our graduates to be absorbed into the work force.

“The available data shows that recruitment and financial clearances for the security services, nurses, teachers, Forestry [Commission] and NABCo and so on, the last two years alone, we’ve employed 350,000 people in the public sector.”

He also said the government has given clearance for people to be recruited as nurses, teachers, as well as personnel at the Forestry Commission and security services.

He said they have resolved to help train nurses by restoring the nurse trainee allowance, restoring the teacher trainee allowance and abolishing the fees of postgraduate medical students.

The Vice-President further noted that the government recognises that the public sector alone cannot absorb all the unemployed youth and, therefore, the Akufo-Addo-led administration will rely on the private sector.

“This means that we have to improve the business environment. Fundamentally, we have to reduce the cost of doing business and the government has been on this particular path in the last couple of years and we’ve done a number of things to reduce the cost of doing business,” he said.

The YEA job centre was specifically set up to strategically position the agency to serve as a one-stop-shop to provide skills and connect job seekers to employers aimed at addressing the unemployment concerns of the youth of the country.