Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, affectionately called NAPO, has claimed that former President John Dramani Mahama is to blame for the escalation of unemployment in the country.
Former President Mahama, he said, during his tenure as Vice President and President between 2008 and 2016 failed to initiate and implement policies and programmes that could have created employment opportunities for the youth.
According to him, failure to create these employment opportunities exacerbated unemployment and frustrated many young people.
Speaking to party supporters during a campaign tour of the Offinso South Constituency, Dr. Prempeh accused the former President of resorting to propaganda in his campaign.
He said every Ghanaian knew the employment situation during the eight-year rule of NDC and pointed out that, if the NDC government prioritised job creation Ghana would not be grappling with the current situation.
Dr Prempeh said the government under President Akufo-Addo had since 2017, created about 2.3 million job opportunities for Ghanaian youth.
The government had also worked to enhance the price of cocoa from GH¢475.00 in 2016 to GH¢3,000.00, enticing the youth to venture into cocoa production and other agricultural businesses.
He said the Agenda 111 Hospitals initiative and the expansion of the educational sector would all help to create employment avenues for many Ghanaians.
Dr Prempeh said the NPP government has placed a premium on education, healthcare, job creation, and infrastructure development, and would continue in that direction in the next administration.
He called on the people not to yield to what he called “the propaganda and lies of the NDC” and continue to support the NPP to retain political power to continue with its national transformation agenda.
Source: Mypublisher24