NDC PROMISES MORE JOBS

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The next government of the NDC will create about three million jobs through various interventions. 

Infrastructural development alone will create about 600 thousand of the opportunities while public works will employ 400 thousand people. 

The Deputy Minister of Communications, Ato Sarpong made this known during a Breakfast Meeting of representatives of professional and identifiable groups as well as Heads of departments and agencies in Kumasi as part of the campaign tour of the Chief of Staff, Mr. Julius Debrah of the Ashanti region. 

The participants were first shown a 26-minute video documentary of the physical infrastructural projects executed by the John Mahama-led government so far. They were also taken through the thematic areas and highlights of the 2016 Manifesto of the NDC. 

The Deputy Minister of Communications, Mr. Ato Sarpong, noted that President Mahama used his first term basically to expand the physical infrastructural base of the country. 

The second term will therefore be dedicated to job and wealth creation through active public-private partnership including the revival of all defunct strategic public companies. 

The participants had the opportunity to make suggestions or seek clarification about some pertinent national issues. 

The Team then toured the Afigya Sekyere East, Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo as well as the Mampong Constituencies where they interacted with the chiefs and elders before addressing leaders and members of the various Zongo communities at mini rallies.

 At all the palaces they visited, the chiefs testified to the many socio-economic development projects undertaken by the government since 2013 and wished President Mahama well in the upcoming elections.

 At the palace of the Mampong Zongo Chief, the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah announced that Government plans to make Arabic and examinable subject at the senior high school level from next year.

 The objective is to make students of the subject globally competitive particularly in the Arab speaking countries which are also neck-deep in the production and exportation of oil. 

Additionally, government is constructing the first ever English Arabic Teacher Training College in Ghana at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo region to train teachers in Arabic in the country.

 At the Kumasi Technical University, formerly the Kumasi Polytechnic, some members of the Team took turns to address members of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network,  TEIN, the tertiary students wing of the NDC on why they must actively take  part in next month’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections. 

Mr. Debrah however used the occasion to advise students in general to take charge of their own future by being innovative, creative, imaginative as well as positive thinking.         
          





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