The current government’s pledge to scrutinise all last minute appointments by the erstwhile Mahama-led NDC administration has resulted in massive unemployment and job loss, according to the Minority in Parliament.
Minority member and Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa alleged that nearly 23,000 people have lost their jobs or the opportunity to gain employment as a result of the embargo placed on employment by the transition team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
These revelations were brought to the fore during a parliamentary debate on the President’s maiden State of the Nation Address which was presented in parliament on February 21, 2017.
In his address, President Akufo-Addo bemoaned the high rate of unemployment and bad state of the economy left behind by the Mahama administration.
He pledged his commitment to solving the problems his government inherited and improve the general well-being of the Ghanaian.
But Okudzeto Ablakwa on the floor of parliament has asserted that, the President should demonstrate his commitment by removing the ban imposed and reversing the actions of the transition team.
He said the phenomenon where people were relieved of their duties and others prevented from reporting to work amounts to job substitution and not job creation.
“Mr Speaker, the point I was making was that 22,802 Ghanaians could have been employed. Two months down the line this suspension order that came from the transition team is still enforced and these 22,802 people are still at home and yet the President comes here and laments, and bemoans and appears to be sympathising with the youth of our country who are unemployed,” he noted.
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Source: ghanaweb.com
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Please stop playing politics with our lives. Long before the elections, there were moves to open financial clearance for sorely needed workers. Nurses went on demonstrations and cursed the Mahama government for not employing them. About 8,300 nurses were then put on the financial clearance list BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, when their financing had been secured by the Ministry of Finance. Graduates had even formed an association of unemployed members. The IMF conditioned Mahama government imposed employment embargo also affected my wife,a graduate and hardcore NPP member. Luckily, she was not unemployed after her National Service in a hospital, she stayed on there voluntarily for years until with the construction of a bigger new hospital to replace the old one in which she had faithfully been working on a pittance allowance all these years, the dire need for the hospital to employ "casuals" like her made the hospital ask for financial clearance when LONG BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, the embargo was partly lifted. She, and hundreds of graduates were invited for interviews. So, after I had sponsored her, paid for her university and still suffered and scrimped all these years, I gladly found with difficulty a few hundred cedis for her to buy a suit...formal office wear and to make copies of an internship report as part of the requirements. She and a lady colleague, an NPP constituency seccretary,her best friend who had also been on the staff on a meager allowance were looking forward to finally being formally employed by the GOG (Government of Ghana). Of ending this casual employment status. NOW THIS STOP!! My wife is mad, her friend is doubly mad and I am raging mad!!! Sop playing politics with our lives. PLEASE RE-OPEN THE FINANCIAL CLEARANCE FOR THE 8,000 PLUS NURSES AND ALMOST 2,000 POLY AND UNIVERSITY GRADUATES!! THAT MAKES A TOTAL OF ABOUT 10,000!! So, the Sharp Tooth Okudjeto may be right when he says nearly 23,000 jobs have been cancelled! I fear the real motive is to sideline people like my wife and her friend and for the current big men create “jobs for the boys”, by employing NPP members in place of the perceived NDC employments. So, I fear she may continue as a casual worker, whilst some boy or girl of some NPP bigman is put in her and her friend’s place! Stop playing politics with our lives!!! Parents and husbands are suffering from continuing to support their unemployed children and spouses!!!
Was it not this same person that 1ied that he and his gov't have provided 6 million Jobs ?? massa stop the 1ies it will make your stay in oppostion for long .
oflijato ablakwa, can you even count? if you could employ why didn't your government do so and waited after elections when you knew you were leaving before doing so? leave us alone to think wai?
THIS BABY WITH SHARP TEETH STILL LIES. PROFESSIONAL LIARS. ATTA MILLS CREATED 1.6 MILLION JOBS IN HIS FIRST TERM YOU SAID. ABLAKWA WHY DO OU ALWAYS LIE. WAT LECACY DO YOU LEAVE TO THE YOUTH. SO SO LYING
This block headed baby with sharp teeth is still misbehaving
Shame on you. If u meant to employ them, why did u wait until the last minute when u knew u were exciting power. Do u think Ghanaians are ***barred word***. What do these politicians take us for. They think we are some cheap ***barred word*** illiterate people. U will remain in opposition for a very long time until u start to respect the Ghanaian pple.
only dat number thought u wil mention 2million self.masa we tired of u politicians
Mere fabrications!! Wait and see!
YOU HAD 8YEARS YOU DID NOT EMPLOY THEM WHY RUSH WHEN YOU ARE OUT OF POWER-SEEJE!
Who believes this LIAR!