MAHAMA LACKS JOB CREATION IDEAS – KONADU

Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com

By William Yaw Owusu

Thursday, May 05, 2016

Newly-elected flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has observed that President John Mahama, being head of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, does not have ideas to create jobs.

Nana Konadu said the youth will continue to wallow in abject poverty so long as Mahama continues to be at the helm of affairs.

She said the lack of employment opportunities in the country, coupled with the continuous collapse of the few businesses amid economic hardship, is making many people despondent; and attributed it to the government’s lack of vision and foresight.

There is widespread public concern about lack of employment opportunities in the country, in spite of the government’s claim that it has created 600,000 jobs.

Stone Cracking

According to the Minister for Private Sector Development, the unemployed youth should take to stone cracking and grass cutting to etch out a living.

Nana Konadu was not happy that many businesses are relocating to other countries whilst others are collapsing, adding that they are all clear indicators that the economy is getting worse.

She told TV3 yesterday that she had received several calls from business owners in the country asking her to come to their rescue.

IMF Bail-Out

“There must be something that we can do when we see that our leader is leading us astray,” the former first lady pointed out.

She said that the government going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bail-out is a clear indication that the Mahama-led government cannot handle the economy.

“So you don’run to the IMF when there is nothing wrong with you. The economy has been collapsed. It has completely collapsed through theft, through mismanagement and others,” she posited.

President’s Mandate

Nana Konadu noted that some Ghanaians are confused about the tenure of office of a president and said they even think that the mandate is eight years instead of four.

“We should look at our Constitution again because we have a Constitution that allows us to change leaders every four years. Some think it is eight years… No, it is four years. If you perform well, we give you another four years. If you don’t perform well and [have] done abysmally, you don’t force us to take you back,” she advocated.

New EC Logo

Mrs. Rawlings also waded into the new Electoral Commission (EC) controversial logo saga and said the Chairperson of the electoral body, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, got it wrong by focusing on non-essential things, accusing her of not paying attention to divergent views.

“We can’t leave EC alone. The rationale behind the Electoral Commission’s decision to unveil a new logo, especially at a period when it is expected to focus on its core mandate of delivering free and credible elections, must be questioned,” she said.

“The other day I saw written somewhere ‘leave her alone.’ Nobody can tell us to leave the EC chair alone, nobody because she is working for us. It is our right,” she insisted.