Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has assured Ghanaians of the government’s commitment to generating additional employment opportunities through various initiatives.
Speaking at the launch of the government’s latest business and youth intervention, the Business and Employment Assistance Programme in Sunyani on Monday, December 11, Dr. Bawumia highlighted that the government has successfully created 2.1 million jobs over the past seven years.
The newly introduced initiative, spearheaded by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), aims to bolster 10,000 businesses owned by young Ghanaians, providing employment for 20,000 youth, with their salaries covered by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). Dr. Bawumia emphasized that these new jobs would supplement the existing 2.1 million employment opportunities already generated.
He expressed optimism that this initiative would contribute to sustaining and expanding businesses while concurrently offering valuable job prospects.
Dr. Bawumia reiterated the government’s unwavering dedication to job creation, emphasizing the additional opportunities provided to the youth through various interventions under the YEA and other affiliated agencies.
“The Business and Employment Assistance Programme and other youth interventions under the YEA and under agencies, underline our government’s commitment to creating more jobs and opportunities to the youth, in addition to the 2.1m jobs created by the government in the past seven years in the public and private sectors respectively,” the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said.