Creation of Ghanaian-European Center for Jobs is a further boost for provision of decent employment – Akufo-Addo
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3 months ago
Source:
3News
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that his administration has put in place several job creation initiatives to provide youth with decent employment opportunities. He cited the establishment of the Ghanaian-European Center for Jobs, Migration, and Development as one of the initiatives ensuring a further boost for the provision of decent employment opportunities
Speaking at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) quadrennial conference, at Kasoa in the Central Region on Tuesday, August 20 President Akufo-Addo said "An ultra-modern four-story building currently is 95 percent complete is being constructed alongside the construction of 16 new public employment centers and the refurbishment of forty others across the country. The government has also enhanced the mobility of labour officers by providing 80 motors, four SUVs and twenty-one pickup vehicles for their use.
"The establishment of the Ghanaian-European Center for Jobs, Migration and Development is a further boost for the provision of decent employment opportunities particularly for young people seeking to migrate or return from abroad. The youth employment agency has also been reformed and repositioned to facilitate job creation. for our teeming youth. In 2024 alone, 84,138 aid beneficiaries were aged under various models of the program.
"Since 2017 a total of 700,947 have benefited from the YEA's initiative. These achievements would not have been possible without the invaluable contributions of organized labour."
President Akufo-Addo further described the controversies that the attempt to sell the hotels belonging to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) generated as unnecessary.