GOV'T. ALONE CAN'T CREAT JOBS-NDC GEN. SEC.

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Asiedu Nketia helping to launch the project
  
The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has noted that unemployment is not peculiar to Ghana. Rather, it is a global phenomenon afflicting all economies. 

According to him, no government anywhere in the world can single-handedly effectively address the social problem for which reason most governments are now relying on business innovative and creative ideas of entrepreneurs to help create job opportunities for the teeming jobless people. 

Mr. Asiedu Nketiah said this at a ceremony at Kumtanase to officially open a job-creation project for members of the National Democratic Congress in the Bosomtwe Constituency of the Ashanti region. 

The programme which was on the theme: “Creating Sustainable Jobs for the Grassroots;  'The Responsibility of Leadership” is an initiative of the new Executives of the Bosomtwe Constituency of the NDC led by a Livestock and Poultry Specialist, Emmanuel Anokye De-Graft, the Chairman. 

The NDC General Secretary emphasized also the fact that no government can employ all the school graduates of the country. 

It is therefore imperative for the paradigm of job creation attention be shifted from the central government to entrepreneurs whose expertise is in business and innovative ideas. 

Mr. Asiedu Nketiah described the Bosomtwe Constituency as a model for all the Constituencies of the party in the country and commended the Executives for the initiative that seeks to empower the members economically. 

On behalf of the National Executives of the NDC, he contributed a cash of two thousand Ghana Cedis towards the project. 

The Constituency Chairman of the party, Emmanuel Anokye De-Graft explained that the project, which involves a piggery and rabbitry is targeted at getting every party member in the Constituency at least one pig or rabbit to start their own production for self-employment in the next one year. 

The Chairman said to achieve this, each of the 10 Zones of the party in the Constituency will be provided with the piggery and rabbitry project for replication in the various communities. 

According to Mr. Anokye, the success of the project would enable the Constituency to be financially self-reliant as well as boost the morale and confidence of the members to work hard for the party’s agenda for the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

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