Creating jobs for the youth is at the heart of my government - Bawumia

The Vice President and Flagbearer of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stressed that one of the main focus of his administration will be the creation of jobs for the teeming youth of the country..

Interacting with the media in Accra, Dr. Bawumia said that despite the Akufo-Addo government creating more than 2.3 million jobs in the past 7 years, Dr. Bawumia said there are still concerns for jobs amongst the youth and outlined a number of steps his government intends to take to create more jobs for the youth.

"There are many areas that we will tackle for young people to get jobs," Dr. Bawumia said.

"We are looking at the growth of businesses which will make people hire more and we have proposed a number of incentives to businesses to help them grow...We also have a major tax reform programme to create a convenient environment for business in flat tax rate and tax amnesty."

"We also believe that training the youth is very important so the investment we are making in TVET will be improved significantly."

"We are also committed to training the youth in a broad area of ICT skills and many of our trained youth will have the opportunity to get jobs in Ghana and from various places abroad."