Akufo Addo's government to lay off workers?

The Senior Minister has hinted the civil service is full to capacity and government may possibly have to lay off some civil servants.

According to Yaw Osafo Maafo, due to the International Monitory Fund (IMF) program government may have to rationalise and downsize the public sector to meet some aspects of the deal, and this will make it difficult to in the short term, absorb substantial portions of fresh graduates.

He has therefore called on training institutions to partner with the private sector, which government considers as the engine of growth to train technically skilled human resources to fill vacancies in the private sector.

Speaking at the Ghana Economic Forum on August 7, 2017, on the theme: ‘The Ghanaian-Owned Economy: 60 Years After Independence’, the senior Minister said,  “Most people coming out of our universities are not technical brains most of them are in the humanities.”

“It is very expensive for the private sector to put up a credible technical university, so, most of the private sectors go into the training of marketing, sociology, economics. Those subjects can be easily taught without expensive laboratories and workshops.

The senior Minister added that if our economy is to go on a tangent like the German economy has, then the public sector will not be the place to look for a job.

He continued that for the universities to help in developing  Ghana, more technical brains should be trained in order for graduates to fit into the private sector or by virtue of their training be self-employed.

 

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