John Dramani Mahama, the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has jabbed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over what he says is its continuous propaganda over job creation.
He says despite the NPP administration almost doubling the rate of unemployment in just 8 years, the government claims it has created over 2 million jobs.
John Mahama avers the claim is a lie since the said jobs are only found in books and not on the grounds.
Speaking in Sunyani during his tour to the Bono region, the former President described the situation as a ticking time bomb which demands an urgent address.
“Youth unemployment is a main issue. The youth came out in their numbers and it is clear that it is a ticking time bomb for us as country. We need to accelerate our economy, invest in the areas of the economy that will provide decent and sustainable jobs for young people and we need to do that urgently,” he stated.
He remarked that the Akufo-Addo government has no solution to youth unemployment in the country, but has resorted to propaganda of job creation which he asserts has no correlation with reality.
“Currently the currently government has no panacea for youth unemployment because they’ve taken the unemployment rate from 8.4% to 14.7% in just 8 years and so when they talk about creating 2 million jobs you ask, where are the jobs?
“If unemployment rate has risen to 14.7% then you couldn’t have created 2 million jobs. But we all know that this is a government that is used to propaganda and when you do propaganda, you must keep your propaganda from reality.
“Unfortunately for this government, they are lost in their propaganda because they believe it and so they repeat it like a nursery rhyme. And they believe everything that they say even though on the grounds, the reality is different,” he told a gathering of party faithful.
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