The opposition National Democratic Congress has reiterated that their agenda one million jobs is achievable yesterday 14 October 2020 in their weekly press briefing.
The press briefing which was executed by their National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi elucidated on how the NDC shall create these jobs, the source of the jobs that will be created and how they will fund these jobs under the John Dramani Mahama and professor Naana Jane Opoku led administration.
Speaking at the press briefing Sammy Gyamfi said the NDC is seeking to create a minimum of 250,000 jobs yearly to eradicate the unemployment canker that has plagued the country for years now. He added that the NDC’s promise isn’t a political gimmick for votes but an agenda that will be base on science and critical reforms to creating jobs that hitherto did not exist for Ghanaians.
Touching on how their agenda one million jobs is achievable he assured that their first step shall be an employment reforms that focusses on three provisions, one employment act, he clarified that “As a first step soon after we are ushered into office, we shall pass the first of its kind in our nation’s history, an Employment Act to provide a comprehensive framework for job creation and labour market statistics”. This shall be followed Creating a Three-shift Economy
Given Ghana’s small market size of only 31 million people and a per capita income of $2,200, we intend to embark an aggressive promotion of exports, which will lead to a high demand for labour to meet increased production for both domestic consumption and export. And lastly under this, is to “decentralise and convert the Labour Office into the National Employment Bureau equipped with state of-the-art facilities and Grant tax-waivers to employers who employ workers through the Bureau”.
Moving on to the source of their jobs Sammy Gyamfi subsequently said that the NDC will be stimulating sustainable Private Sector Jobs. “Our plan is to stimulate the creation of sustainable jobs by creating an enabling environment for the private sector to thrive. One of the things we will do to achieve this is to significantly reduce the cost of doing business in Ghana through tax cuts, so that businesses are able to plough back their savings into their businesses, expand and create sustainable jobs”.
At the government sector, the communication officer stressed for “President, John Dramani Mahama to come out with a comprehensive policy on Job Creation, conducted a Human Resource Gap (HR Gap) Analysis of Ghana’s Public sector. The result of this analysis confirmed that Ghana’s public sector is not operating at optimum level across all facets of the public service, when juxtaposed with international or globally accepted standards”. So government sector alone would employment over 530,342 workers.
Ending the press briefing on source of funding, he said the NDC will cut down wasteful expenditure, use advance technology to enhance maximum revenue mobilization and additional channel a greater percentage of our oil revenue into productive initiatives that will create sustainable jobs unlike their opponents who are achievers of sloganeering and empty promises .
Filed By Agaatorne Douglas Asaah / awakenewsroom.com