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 job losses during the ruling government of the New Patriotic Party is more than the "fictional figure of jobs created."

Minister for Labor and Employment, Ignatius Baffuor Awuah on Thursday, August 1[ads1]5, 2019, revealed that the government had created a total of 611,397 new jobs in the formal sector while an additional 1,539,000 new jobs created in the agriculture sector specifically under the government's flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program.

The breakdown of jobs created in the formal sector is government departments, departments and agencies ( MDAs) absorbed 343,458 of the total, and 267,939 received positions in other formal private sector sectors. at the moment is around 7.1%.

However, Kabore claimed that the media spoke to the media in Koforidua that "job losses from the banking sector to clean up the exercise, which has led to the collapse of nine indigenous banks and hundreds of microfinance companies, as well as job losses for the mining sector and even the media sector over one million who have affected over three million directly dependents. "

He added that" so even because of this actual job created by the government, it is clear that many people have lost the job under this government hence the unbearable difficulties everywhere. ”