Bawumia Provides Data On 2 Million Jobs Created
The vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has released data on two million jobs he says his government has created in the past six years since the assumption of Office.
Per the data, people were employed in the various government agencies and the private sector.
Government agencies cited by the data include but are not limited to the security services, aviation, Youth Employment Agency (YEA), COCOBOD, the education service, legal council, the statistical service, etc.
In all the data shows 2,255,928 jobs were created from 2017 to 2022.
242,461 jobs were created in 2017, 373,708 in 2018, 579,789 in 2019, 357,060 in 2020, 304,885 in 2021 and 226,946 in 2022.
The publication of the data came after a section of Ghanaians disputed the vice President’s claim that over two million jobs have been created by the Akuko-Addo-led government since 2017.
“In the past six years, despite the challenges of COVID-19 and the ongoing global economic crisis, I am glad to say that we created over two million jobs for the youth, excluding what we created under the Planting for Food and Jobs and the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), which were stop-gap measures,” Dr Bawumia is quoted to have said during the 2023 Eid-ul-Fitr.
In a Facebook post, he said “I recently stated that our government has created over 2 million jobs since 2017. As usual, the naysayers have questioned how we could have done so. Their mindset of impossibility prevents them from accepting that” and then attached the data to it.
He, however, noted that the data excluded jobs under planting for food and jobs and the National Identification Authority.
Find The data Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10zDMkoRdkbsj3fO9EDvShTzi7yokFUlF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108787003305610934743&rtpof=true&sd=true
