{"id":273438,"date":"2025-11-20T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:32:10","slug":"oppong-nkrumah-questions-credibility-of-governments-job-creation-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273438\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppong Nkrumah questions credibility of government’s job creation agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kojo <\/a>Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is the Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi<\/p>\n

The Member of <\/a><\/a><\/a>Parliament<\/a> for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/a>, has expressed scepticism about the government\u2019s promises to create jobs through initiatives such as the 24-hour economy, the Big PUSH, and other flagship programmes.<\/p>\n

According to him, the government has failed to provide the necessary programme documents outlining the framework, timelines, and implementation strategies for these policies.<\/p>\n

He noted that even communicators of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) appear to be struggling to articulate the details of the 24-hour economy, raising further concerns about the policy\u2019s clarity and coherence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a policy which some communicators of the NDC are finding hard to explain,\u201d he said during a one-on-one interview on the Platform programme on Peace FM.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that he has repeatedly demanded the official programme document for the 24-hour economy in <\/a><\/a><\/a>Parliament<\/a>, but the government has yet to produce one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have continuously asked in <\/a><\/a><\/a>Parliament<\/a> for the programme document of the 24-hour economy, which can serve as a guide for the policy, to no avail. I\u2019m yet to receive any response\u2026 we\u2019re still waiting for when the government will bring the programme document to <\/a><\/a><\/a>Parliament<\/a>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Oppong Nkrumah expressed doubt that the government\u2019s projected growth, job creation, and economic transformation can be anchored on policies that lack publicly available details.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when you believe that the government\u2019s talks of growth, jobs, and economic transformation are coming from the 24-hour economy, the Big PUSH, and the new city, I\u2019m afraid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is the Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}