By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
Ghana’s sixth President-elect, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, in what looks like a jab at the outgoing President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, says his administration will prioritise sustainable job creation over artificial initiatives like the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) created by the outgoing government led by Nana Akufo Addo and Dr. Mahamud Bawumia.
According to him, “artificial job-creating” initiatives do not address the long-term unemployment challenges the country is faced with.
In an interview with VOA on Saturday, December 14, 2024, the President-elect specifically criticised NABCO, an initiative introduced by the outgoing New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in 2018, describing it as 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 to graduate into jobs.
At the end of the process, they have been abandoned. We are not going to do those artificial job creation measures.
We going to use the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to provide 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 reiterated.
