President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that a total of 121,249 Teachers and Nurses have been employed since 2017.
He said 54,892 healthcare workers employed, and 66,357 teachers have getting jobs since he came into office in 2017.
Speaking at the 71st New Year School, on Tuesday, 14th January 2020, at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, on the theme “Attaining Ghana Beyond Aid: Challenges and Prospects”, President Akufo-Addo stated that “we have started on the right path towards a prosperous future with the concrete steps we are taking to restore macro-economic stability and economic growth.”
In 2019, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffuor Awuah revealed that the Akufo-Addo government has been able to create a total of 611,397 new jobs in the formal sector.
At a press encounter on Thursday, 15 August 2019, Mr. Awuah revealed that the current unemployment rate is 7.1% and explained that: “People who are not working and made efforts to look for work and did not obtain work summed up to 422,000 [3.7%]. So, strictly speaking, these are the unemployed persons that we have on our hand”.
“Their number is 417,500. So, if you add that to those who are looking for work but are not getting it, the percentage then moves to 7.1%.”
Government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) absorbed 343,458 out of the total figure with 267,939 getting placements in other formal private sector areas.
According to him, the government’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme witnessed the provision of 1,539,000 new jobs in the agriculture sector.
Source: Kofi Atakora
