Leadership is about creating jobs; not your guinea fowl rearing – Bawumia tells Mahama

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the New Patriotic Party leadership under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deserves four more years due to the transformation in the formal sector in its first term in office.

Speaking on Ghana’s economy during the government’s Nation Building Updates, on Thursday, November 26, 2020, Dr. Bawumia said the Akufo-Addo government has the Ghanaian youth at heart.

Dr. Bawumia cited government interventions such as NABCo, Planting for Food and Jobs as part of the programmes through which the jobs have been created.

According to him, the Akufo-Addo administration saw the unemployment situation in the country as a national security threat and had to find innovative ways of creating jobs to arrest the situation.

He said “You remember being told and I quote ‘ that I am not a magician to create jobs ‘. You are living witnesses to the several thousands fellow citizens who lost jobs under the unrelenting burden of the four years of dumsor compounded the onerous electricity tariffs and burdensome taxes and businesses collapsed”.

“You remember the SADA Guinea fowls that flew to Burkina Faso and they have still not returned , you remember that the government had to go to the IMF to rescue the country ,that was indeed a rescue mission.

“It was clear that the NDC government had lost its way, failed Ghanaians and did not have an idea of how to get us out of the ditch they had driven us into” he added.