You can’t pay graduates GH¢400 and say you created jobs - Ken Agyapong to government

Outspoken New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central Honourable Kennedy Agyapong has admonished his own government to take the issue of job creation seriously and to desist from counting almost everything government does as a job when it was not.

He tasked the government led by H.E President Nana Akufo-Addo to be truthful about the subject of job creation as it is on the back of job promises that they won the last election, he said in an Asempa FM interview monitored by mynewsgh.com.

The NPP lawmaker said government should create realistic jobs, especially jobs that can absorb graduates so they can take care of themselves.

Speaking in Twi with an English mix, he said: “People are suffering. See, unemployment is ubiquitous. Even though President is still working and things will change, we must be truthful about jobs… How can you pay graduates 400 cedis a month and say you have created jobs”, he queried.

He said he cannot look in the eyes of his own graduate staff and pay them 400GhC in the name of employment.

“Even my driver how much do I pay him? My driver is a young man. I pay him 1500 cedis so that he too can do something for himself, so please, we must get serious about job creation”.

He lamented that things are not rosy yet, and that even for him “the whole of 2017, me, me Kennedy Agyapong I didn’t get a contract worth one million dollars… if any of them say I am lying they should come and face me”.

He however indicated that despite all odds, he has been able to secure some jobs for members of the NPP particularly those in his constituency and he will continue to do more.

On the same platform, Mr Ken Agyapong renewed his call on the Agric Minister to substantiate his job claims because to him it didn’t add up.

“If US with 300m people created 200,000 jobs in 2017, how did Ghana, with our population create 745,000 jobs under one sector?”, the daring, philanthropic lawmaker asked his colleague lawmaker who heads the Agric Ministry.

The Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong is known to be passionately vocal about issues, particularly issues of jobs especially for the grassroots of his party and doesn’t mince words in his criticisms, as mynewsgh.com have reported in the past.

Mr Ken Agyapong was mobbed over the weekend by a crowd composed mostly of sympathizers of the oppostion NDC when he attended the 40 days Funeral rites of his good friend Alhaji Bature Iddrisu.