Akufo Addo has ballooned unemployment in Ghana – Minority Leader

Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, Ghana’s Parliament Minority Leader representing the opposition National Democratic Congress took a swipe at President Akufo Addo soon after the SONA, saying the latter’s silence on lack of job opportunities in his address to lawmakers demonstrates a lack of commitment to the hot topic.

”No income, no jobs, no access,” he said of the President’s administration with reference to the subject matter.

Dr. Forson raised that a staggering 30 percent of the youth in Ghana are unemployed, among them university graduates. He said, the spectre has a new twist in the form of mass exodus of Ghanaian professionals to other countries.

The Minority Leader thanked the President and his Vice for ticking away the crucial constitutional requirement of addressing the people on the state of the nation, and said the two would not be missed, when the electorate had seen off their party in the next December General Elections.

Dr Forson’s opinion is the opposite of the Vice-President’s take on jobs. A few days earlier whilst making a statement to the nation regarding his plans as NPP’s flagbearer for the 2024 Elections, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said, the government had generated 2.1 million jobs between 2017 and 2022 despite the global economic challenges.