Ghana’s President-elect, John Dramani Mahama, has pledged to prioritize sustainable job creation to tackle the country’s long-term unemployment challenges, dismissing “artificial initiatives” as inadequate solutions.
In an interview with VOA’s Paul Ndiho on Saturday, December 14, Mahama singled out the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), an initiative launched by the outgoing New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in 2018, labeling it ineffective and unsustainable.
“We are not interested in the artificial job creation measures that have been done in the past like NABCO where young people were taken through three years, paid an allowance, and promised that they will be graduated into jobs.
“At the end of the process, they have been abandoned. We are not going to do those artificial job creation measures,” Mahama stated.
Instead, Mahama emphasised the role of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in providing genuine opportunities for training and job orientation.
“We already have the Youth Employment Agency that is creating those opportunities for training and orientation for jobs,” he added.
