Politics of Monday, 12 September 2016Source: kasapafmonline.com48% unemployment rate in Ghana unacceptable – Akufo-AddoNana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo, Flagbearer NPPThe 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described as unacceptable the high level of unemployment in the country. Speaking at a forum in the capital-Accra, Nana Addo said the situation will worsen if pragmatic measures are not put in place to create jobs. Successive governments failed to create jobs for new graduates entering the job market. Nonetheless there is an absence of a viable private sector in Ghana, to absorb the teeming unemployed youth in Ghana. The onus of creating jobs fall squarely on the shoulders of the government, and needs to create an estimated 400,000 jobs annually if the unemployment rate is to be fully addressed.

Source: GhanaWeb September 12, 2016 13:41 UTC