Job loss under NPP higher than created jobs – NDC organizer

General News of Saturday, August 17, 2019

Source: starrfm.com.gh

2019-08-17

The eastern regional organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Hackman Kabore, has said that job losses under the ruling government of the New Patriotic Party are more than its "fictitious figure of jobs created." 201[ads1]9 revealed that the government had created a total of 611,397 new jobs in the formal sector while a further 1,539,000 new jobs were created in the agriculture sector specifically under the government's flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program.

Distribution of created jobs In the formal sector, government departments, departments and agencies (MDAs) absorbed 343,458 of the total, with 267 939, who were placed in other formal private sectors, and unemployment has increased at the moment ndt 7.1%.

However, speaking to the media in Koforidua, Kabore claimed that "the loss of banking sector work cleans up, which has led to the collapse of nine (9) indigenous banks and hundreds of microfinance companies as well as job losses in the mining sector and even the media sector is over one million which has affected over three million directly dependent. "

He added that" so even in the face of this actual number of jobs created by the government, it is clear that many people have lost their jobs under this government, hence the unbearable adversity everywhere. ”