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Ghana – Presidential candidate describes youth employment initiative as a lazy form of job creation (Ghana Web)

28 September 2016

The Youth Employment Authority (YEA) formerly the Ghana Youth Employment Agency (GYEEDA), a youth employment initiative, has been described as a lazy form of job creation by the presidential candidate of the Independent People's Party (IPP), Kofi Akpaloo, reports the Ghana Web. Akpaloo said the initiative under the current administration and the administration before that, has failed to solve the unemployment situation in Ghana. ''The Youth Employment is a lazy way of creating jobs, and the best way of doing this is to empower the private sector with the necessary resources, so they use their ingenuity to create or expand their businesses,” Akpaloo said. Akpaloo also stated that his party would build over 250 new factories nationwide to create 180,000 new jobs along with constructing new stadiums which will also create new jobs and help stabilise the economy.