The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Ade Coker, has said that the President’s inability to tell the number of jobs created by the New Patriotic Party at the “Encounter with the media” is a clear indication that the various programmes touted by the governing Political Party have failed and that the party is not being truthful to Ghanaians.
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo during the “Encounter with the Media” could not tell the number of jobs created by his government after one year of governing the country.
The President said “The statistics on the jobs…. I am barely one year in office. Some of these statistics are being collected as we speak now so the labour statistics as to the number of jobs that have been created, those are not statistics that are at hand anywhere. Even for the government, I believe that they are in the process of being assembled, so perhaps in 2 or 3 months, we will be in a better position to answer that question in a more effective manner”.
But the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Ade Coker believes the inability of the President to mention figures is a clear indication that the programmes been touted as successful are all failures.
“The policies that they are pursuing have not worked, that is why they were not able to tell us that for one year, these are the jobs they created.”
“He [Akufo-Addo] wasn’t candid at all…. They said their flagship job creation programmes were successful. These things that they said were successful, what figures were they using to say it was successful? Do we mean not even a single job was created that the president should be in the know? He has got 110 ministers who go to the office everyday… Let’s be serious. How can you come to such an important programme and you don’t know… You have 110 ministers with various departments at a time when 84,000 people queued for jobs… I find it ironic that the president could not with all his flagship programmes which he said was successful, could not tell us the number of jobs he has created. He is not being truthful.”
Source:a1radioonline.com
