Government has rejected media reports about a net freeze on government employment in 2017.
The Finder Newspaper, in its October 24, 2016 edition, published a story about government freezing employment in 2017.
The newspaper ,made it clear that the net freeze on recruitment was contained in “a Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical Memorandum of Understanding Ghana sent to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in September 2016 requesting the IMF Executive Board to complete the third review of Ghana’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement and approve the disbursement of the fourth tranche of the loan based on the satisfactory implementation of performance criteria (PC)”.
According to the report, “The move, according to government forms part of measures to reinforce its strict expenditure control to ensure that the wage bill remains within the approved budget limits”.
However, a statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has disputed the report, claiming it was false and “blatantly wrong”.
According to Dr. Omane Boamah, government is committed to creating more jobs between 2017 and 2021, through President Mahama’s Economic Transformation and Livelihood Empowerment Programme (ETLEP).
See full statement below
The Finder Newspaper is blatantly wrong! Government seeks to generate more jobs between 2017 and 2021 through President Mahama’s Economic Transformation and Livelihood Empowerment Programme (ETLEP). ETLEP will create more jobs and enhance incomes.
Over the past few years notwithstanding challenges on the global commodity market front and some perennial internal challenges Ghana has demonstrated significant resilience and has worked to generate a number of jobs for the citizenry:
* Nurses Recruited – 23, 411 since 2013 (2014- 6,786; 2015- 8,210 & 2016- 8,415);
* Teachers Recruited – over 78,000 (since 2009);
* Engineers, Artisans among others recruited in the construction sector since 2013 – 400,000;
* Ghana Free Zones Board since 2013 – over 20,000 and
* The mainstream Civil Service itself has also employed several people aside the Health and the Education Sectors even though the policy of net freeze has been in force.
These clearly shows that the Finder Newspaper got their interpretation of net freeze blatantly and palpably wrong! Perhaps knowing that ” net freeze” and even “freeze” as contemplated by the erstwhile NPP administration per the attached letter signed on 10th July, 2008 by the late Hon. Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, former Minister for Finance and Economic Planning will further elucidate the true meaning.
Having achieved reasonable macroeconomic stability, and a stable power sector now, more jobs are expected in the coming years through initiatives such as President Mahama’s green revolution, the integrated aluminum industry, expansion of the Tema and Takoradi ports, development of the Atuabo Free Port Project, IT Enabled Services such as the completed ultramodern Business Process Outsourcing Centre near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, investments in the cashew, shea nut, rubber and oil palm industries including continuous revamping of the cocoa sector.
Government wishes to assure that a lot has been achieved but most importantly greater feats beckons to ensure the realization of the aspirations of job seekers including those who wish to change jobs because a solid foundation has been laid, fruits have been realized and better times await us.
Source: The Herald
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the letter of intent says government will freeze employment 2017 and you are lying to us that government will create jobs in 2017. why the lying?
They can still look us in the face and lie, because they just don't respect us, they know how stupidd we are and how our memory is very short.
After being in power for 8 years you could not create jobs, only created looted and shared were the evidenced jobs you did, you guys think Ghanaians are fuuls no way your time is up time asoooooooo oooo time aso
ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL LIAR.YOU ONLY WENT TO SCHOOL TO STUDY HOW TO LIE.GO AND FOOLLLLL YOUR VILLAGE PEOPLE. THE PRESIDENT CREATED JOBS FOR YOU WITH OUR TAXES.
Animaaaaaaaaal,go away
Hmm, this is very shocking, this government is claiming that he has created 521,411 jobs within 8 years.please where is these jobs? please tell me president and his cabinet that Accra is not Ghana, is just part of Ghana, interchange project is not creating any job, is a seasoning job and how many graduates does that project employed? Please we are not ***barred word*** and we cant be ***barred word*** with all these figures, where i have sisters and brothers sitting in the house doing nothing, nurses, teachers and engineers but you keep telling us that u have employed all the figures. God is watching us.
For the sake of God and Ghana, will the NDC stop the lies? Because the thing is, one day, we'll all appear before the judgement seat of God and give account of every deed done. Again, if the NDC truly loves Ghana, they should have handed over by now. Dumsor is lurking at the corner, held at bay by cash injection only re-appear after the election. The cedi has moved from at least 2 to 4 cedis to the dollar since NDC came into office. There are no jobs for Executive MBA holders! Executive MBA!!!, not to talk of JHS, SHS, and BSc/BA holders. As for infrastructure, give the same monies available to the Government to the car dealer at Abossey Okai, and he can pay for road construction, hospital buildings etc. According Ablakwa, a key social intervention of this Gov't is "free exercise books distribution". That day, i felt sad for Ghana. How did we end up like this? We can do better than this, much better! And you have Omane Boamah talk of "Numerator and Denominator". Children still at school, they can't use any applied language beyond the classroom.
Ghana's GDP in 2009 is 8.5% and in 2016 is 3.3%. How can JDM CREATE Jobs with this GDP Economy. This has led to the cancellation of Teachers Training Allowances, Nurses Training Allowances. NDC is using the remaining Months to Promise Ghanaians which they themselves KNOW THEY CANNOT FULFILL THEM. They have Mismanaged the COUNTRY'S ECONOMY FROM 2009 TO DATE - 2016. CHANGE IS COMING IN 7TH DECEMBER.
...because the incompetent Mahama and his FIPs regard Ghanaians as fo.ols they expect us to believe this non.sense!
Lies, lies lies... How many jobs have you created the last four years? Tekper said there will be no govt job in 2017 bcos of IMF conditionality. Where is the job coming from? This incompetent and c0rrupt NDC guys have no message only lies.....