Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations Bright Wireko-Brobby has disclosed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has created 2.2 million jobs since 2017.
The Deputy Minister was contributing to the debate in parliament on President Akufo–Addo’s state of the nation address delivered to the house on February 20.
He said the majority of jobs created since 2017 have been in the informal space. “85% of the workforce is in the informal sector.
Formal space accounts for 611,000,” he noted. Quoting the president’s statement to the house, he said the latest Ghana living standards survey has shown that unemployment in the country has reduced from 11.9% in 2015 to 7.3% in 2019.
He praised the president for the jobs created noting, “he came in 2017 when we had International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionalities that restricted employment in all sectors.
Breaking down the figures, Mr Wireko-Brobby said on the education front, 67,000 teachers have so far been employed.
He said more than 65,000 people have gotten jobs in the health sector.
The other sectors that have created jobs include the free SHS programme, creation of new districts, recruitments in the aviation sector, the Planting for Export and Rural Development programme, one village – one dam initiative, the National Builders Corps (NABCO) programme, the Community Mining Initiative, among others.
The deputy minister assured more jobs are coming soon citing the launch of the automotive policy which will see Nissan, Toyota and VW building plants in the country. He said with 181 factories under the One District, One Factory (1D1F) initiative at various stages of completion whilst 58 are already operational, more jobs will be created soon.
The minister explained people with disabilities have also been catered for by the government.
Source:Fiilafmonline/JoyNews
