President John Mahama’s promise to create 3
million jobs in his second term if he wins the December 7 elections is a panic
reaction to the wind of change that is blowing ahead of the elections, Mr Titus
Glover, Member of Parliament for Tema East, has said.According to him,
Mr Mahama is sensing defeat ahead of the elections, and, therefore, feels the
need to make promises to hoodwink the electorate to vote for
him.
President Mahama said on his website that: “Together with a new NDC
Government, I will deliver the most ambitious job creation plan for our country.
We will implement the Economic Transformation and Livelihood Empowerment
Programme (ETLEP), an Initiative that will generate at least three million
direct and indirect jobs.”
He listed seven policies that will help in
that regard:
• We will increase funding to the Youth Enterprise Support
(YES) Initiative from GH¢10 million to GH¢100 million, which means GH¢25 million
a year;
• We will create more IT Enabled Service jobs through the
completion of the Ghana – Mauritius Technology Park Project among
others;
• We will strengthen and expand the operations of the
Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) to create over three hundred
thousand (300,000) jobs;
• We will vigorously pursue the Integrated
Aluminum Industry Project, which is anchored on the oil and gas
industry;
• We will rejuvenate Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s era factories
such as the Asutuare Sugar Factory among others;
• The next NDC
Government will employ over 300,000 unskilled people in public works, so that
even people with no qualification could get a chance to contribute to our
country’s growth and
• The next NDC Government will expand the YEA job
creation opportunities from the current 100,000 to 400,000, so that the youth
could get more opportunities to work;
Speaking in an interview with Chief
Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Thursday October 27, Mr
Glover said: “Trainee teachers have no jobs to do, those who are already
teaching are not being paid, and so what is President Mahama talking about? He
is talking out of frustration; he is making political talk. The change that we
need should definitely come.
“Because the NDC government is not
supporting the private sector, the private sector is struggling. The excessive
taxes – energy levy, water levy, duties – the private sector is paying is so
serious. That is why the NPP’s manifesto is a solution to these problems,
solutions that will help the private sector to create jobs. We (NPP) are saying
that any productive area, in fact the raw materials imported into the productive
areas, we will remove the taxes on them. Secondly, every job that will absorb
the graduates is going to be given tax incentives. These are all solutions to
solve the problems of unemployment, not what President Mahama is
saying?
“All he is doing is panic reaction to the change that is coming
in the elections, and, so, he feels he has to make more promises. He has no
solutions to the problems of this country. A vote for President Mahama and the
NDC is doom for this country. President Mahama is a threat to this country
because he has no solutions to the problems of this country.” |
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