NABCO - A FAILED POLICY OR A SOLUTION?
By the year 2016, the NDC had gone to seek Policy Credibility at the IMF. They returned with harsh policies including the placement of embargo on public sector employment and Ghana was building a backlog of unemployed graduates. There was a ban on the recruitment of Teachers, Nurses, and Graduates from the Polytechnics and Universities. Eventually, an Unemployed Graduates Association of Ghana was formed. The teaming unemployed graduates soon hit the streets in protest against the embargo on their lives and destinies. In response, the then President indicated he was not a magician to create jobs nor put monies in their pockets. Working for an hour became a job and the solution was for graduates to cut grasses and gather stones. Unemployment had reached unprecedented levels. Millions of Ghanaian graduates wake up each day to the soul-destroying reality of joblessness and they spend their energies looking for non-existent jobs. Education was no longer the key to success. Such was life of ...