The President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo Addo has revealed that his government will be creating about 1 million jobs for the unemployed in the country in the next three years.
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This comes after the recent approval for the Ministries of Interior, National Security, and Education to employ 11,000 personnel.
According to him, the plans discussed with the Ministry of Finance will be revealed by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta to the 8th parliament on 29th July 2021.
He made this announcement during his Eid message, as part of this year’s Eid-ul-Adha celebrations at the National mosque on Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
He said that the jobs will come under the Ghana COVID-19 Alleviation and Revitalization of Enterprises Support (Ghana CARES) program, and will be created over a three-year period.
“As has been well-publicized, a few days ago, the Ministry of Finance granted financial clearance to the Ministry of Education and the security services for the recruitment of some 11,800 people to beef up their operations. It does not end there. We will through interventions to be set out in the mid-year budget review announce plans for the creation of some 1 million more jobs under the Ghana CARES ‘Obaatampa’ project over the course of the next 3 years,” he said.
“We are determined to pursue our agenda for jobs creation in order to give opportunities for our youth to nurture their talents for the development of our country,” he added.
