The Minority in Parliament has strongly criticized President John Mahama, likening him to a “Terminator” due to what they claim is a wave of mass dismissals of young Ghanaian workers.
At a press conference on Monday, March 3, former Minister for Finance, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, accused the Mahama administration of deliberately terminating the employment of properly hired workers to create job openings for party loyalists.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it is now a notorious fact that, to create vacancies for the purpose of employing NDC youth, the Mahama administration has sacked thousands of young Ghanaians who had been properly employed by the previous administration,” Dr. Amin Adam stated.
He further argued that dismissing workers and hiring replacements does not equate to job creation.
“The termination of the jobs of young Ghanaians, which has become synonymous with President Mahama—‘Terminator 1’—is a sign of what is yet to come. Sacking people from employment and replacing them later with others does not amount to job creation,” he asserted.
The Minority also questioned the sustainability of Mahama’s proposed job creation initiatives, dismissing them as ineffective.
“What the people of Ghana want are new jobs for those yet to be employed. President Mahama knows that the programmes he outlined in his statement—‘nkoko nkitinkiti’ and the rest—cannot create sustainable jobs for the Ghanaian youth, hence the resort to termination of existing jobs for future replacement to shore up his job numbers,” Dr. Amin Adam concluded.
The accusations highlight the ongoing political debate over employment policies and the direction of Ghana’s job market under the Mahama administration.
