A leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Kwame Awuah-Darko has said that with a particular emphasis on rice farming, a key pillar of their 2024 manifesto, over 200,000 sustainable jobs will be created while reducing Ghana's dependency on rice imports.
In an interview with 3news on November 26, he said using the amount of money spent on Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) Trainees would have started a huge rice farm.
Mr Awuah-Darko noted that an amount of GHC700 was spent on each NABCo trainee as monthly allowance.
NABCo has since its inception employed 100,000 people, making a total of GHC2.5billion in the last 3 years. "The same amount invested in rice production would have developed 42000 acres of rice farm," he explained. He added that "If this was implemented from the start, there would have been more than 200,000 sustainable jobs." "The NDC are better managers of the Ghanaian economy due to the party's consistent track record of investing in the productive side of the economy as against the NPPs track record of wasteful expenditure," he said.