‘NDC should be careful, unemployment rate is scary’ - Martin Kpebu warns

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 1 day ago

    MAHAMA AND HIS NDC
    HAVE FAILED TOO EARLY!!!!!!!! TOO EARLY!!!!!
    AND THEY WANT 3RD TERM???????
    Eiiii!!!!!!
    HOW CAN WE GIVE HIM A 3RD TERM WITH NOLLE PROSEQUI, CULTURE OF SILENCE, SELECTIVE JUSTICE, ABOYALANCE, LGBTQ+ LIES, ...
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  • Yaw 1 day ago

    Thanks to Lawyer Kpebu. He has said all that I wish I could tell the President if I were to meet him.
    NDC is failing BIG TIME !
    Unemployment, hopelessness, desperation and many more misfortunes have become the lot of the yo ...
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  • mr amin 1 day ago

    Job creation is demand driven just like the 24hr economy you can't create jobs without demand for the end product, that why govts upon gov are unable to create jobs also poor purchasing power courses unemployment so strengthe ...
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  • Ablekuma Van Damme 1 day ago

    WHAT HAPPENED TO YAA TITI WILL GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING. CAPTAIN SMART IN THE AFTERNOON. AND SAMMY GYAMFI IN THE NIGHT??? MMOAA

    SAMMY GYAMFI THE BABY PROPAGANDIST MADE A LOT OF NOISE AND BIG PROMISES IN OPPOSITION BUT WHA ...
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  • Blue Pen 1 day ago

    @mr amin. Stop reading American and imf economics textbooks, which are intended to fool us and keep weak, dependent and exploitable forever. No country's own population is big enough market to generate the demand for it to be ...
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  • mr amin 18 hours ago

    @ Blue Pen, industries are largely created by machinery if your purchase power is weak it would be difficult for you to buy the machines and extablish an industry to be able to export the product, even if you are able to exta ...
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  • KWAO 1 day ago

    THERE IS A LOT OF WORK IN GHANA. THE YOUTH ARE LAZY AND THEY WANT QUICK MONEY. YOU MUST NOT BE RECEIVING GOVERNMENT SALARY TO CONSIDER YOURSELF EMPLOYED. I HAVE A FARM AND WANT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO EMPLOY BUT THEY DO ...
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  • Joshua Obo 1 day ago

    How much do you pay as a salary a month to your farm worker and you are not getting more workers? Please state it here for us to know if Ghanaians are lazy or not.

  • Twe 1 day ago

    Oh! , Mr Adade aren’t you enthusiastic about the 24hr market going to be built in your hometown ? You can get ab3 , 3nwa , konkonte , emire ,koobi ,bankye, moboowa, akwaabi, anytime within 24 hrs , womp3 woi na wo p3 3d3 ...
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  • Turn the 24hr market infrastructure to workstations 1 day ago

    Instead of buying and selling imported goods, We should discpurage importation of some basic items like clothes, processed food, drinks etc. The Work stations at the proposed 24hour markets could be rented to graduates as min ...
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  • Sam 1 day ago

    Mahama the great. Sends shivers to phools. Haha

  • Ernestine Sackey 20 hours ago

    Sam the fool.

  • Joseph 1 day ago

    Is only tv3 that has been given this guy that much attention. He is actually empty and hollow

  • TWEAA DC 1 day ago

    AGENDA 1.3.3 'YAAMUTU'...NOW IT IS 24HR ECONOMY MARKET...PEOPLE WILL GO AND BUY KOOBI AT MIDNIGHT SO JOBS WILL BE CREATED...JOHN FORD AIRBUS DRUNKMANI IS COMPLETELY EMPTY....TWEAA.

  • TWEAA DC 17 hours ago

    JOHN MAHAMA SAID ONE JOB, THREE PEOPLE, THREE SHIFTS (1.3.3.)....AND THE YOUTH FOLLOWED HIM LIKE ZOMBIES...WHAT IS HE NOW SAYING?...24HR ECONOMY MARKETS....TWEAA.

  • Kofi Banza 1 day ago

    Useless profusion from a man who thinks he's more important than he really is.

  • Nana 1 day ago

    Majority of these unemployed youth are coming from Volta & Oti regions. Unfortunately they don't accept it that it's coming from the 30 year mismanagement of Ghana's economy by P/NDC.

  • kulbogo. 1 day ago

    Martin, you better not waste your time advising this clueless government, they lied their way to power and there is nothing they can do to reduce the unemployment rate in the country, they took over the country when a tin of ...
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  • Kwesi 1 day ago

    I am always at a loss as to why these Finance Ministers keep telling Ghanaians this: the Cedi has been stabilised”.
    What do Ghanaians produce for export to earn foreign exchange? As long as our imports exceed our exports, ...
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  • Kwame Asante 1 day ago

    @Kwesi did you just land on this earth from wherever; have you not heard about Goldbod and the $10billion forex inflow.

  • Bawumia 1 day ago

    Kulbogo the mad dog you can do your propaganda however you want to but real Ghanaians know what's best for them. Kwasia you think we've forgotten what transpired in this country in the last eight years of the Nkwasifo) Peopl ...
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  • Paapa 20 hours ago

    You're a big fool like him

  • Ttt 1 day ago

    Go away, hypocrite

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 day ago

    MARTIN KPEBU HAS NOT BEEN SETTLED. NDC PLEASE HE HAS BEEN SPEAKING FOR YOU FOR 2 YEARS BUT NO REWARD

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 day ago

    IS KPEBU SAYING THAT AKUFFO ADDO’S 8 YEARS RULE WAS BETTER THAN MAHAM’S 2 YEARS?. NO! BUT HE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY BITTER AND FRUSTRATED. MAHAMA PLEASE SORT HIM OUT. HE IS RIGHT

  • Greatness 1 day ago

    More jobs for the youth that's the way to go. Thank you Martin k.

  • Joy 1 day ago

    Where is the money to pay any One who want to work at the government sector? Martin look ghanaians must wise up by setting up their business after university completion than to worry the government for job. Government only ca ...
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  • Twe 1 day ago

    So whom should we believe ? , Mr Mustapha Gwandeh or Mr KPEBU ? The other day Mr Mustapha said all the NDC manifestos has been implemented

  • James 1 day ago

    Aban papa aba.The youth should keep quiet and enjoy their 24 hour economy

  • Jaja 1 day ago

    24-hour economy?????

    Politicians have taken Ghana for granted for far too long, including their enablers like Kpebu. Why is he now complaining?

    Mahama and his people have no clue on how to solve the unemployment probl ...
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  • Good News 1 day ago

    Mr Kpebu just go do your research,it's at 13% at present not 56.7% as IMF claims it to be,you are a learned person so be smart

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  • Schoolboy Reports 1 day ago

    The Oxford University/University Of Ghana Educated President Akuffo Addo Cited The Case/ That Ignited The Arab Spring

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    &The Series Of Events That Led To The University Graduate/ Mr Mohamed Bouaziz To Do The Thing He Did Is Scary Also& The Whole Thing Is Very Well Documented

  • Kwame 1 day ago

    They say invest a lot in agriculture and this will generate alot of jobs for the youth, but the government will not listen. They're only interested in supporting the cedi with billions of dollars, which is only aiding the im ...
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  • Pelicles 1 day ago

    Martin Kpebu, Mahama is the hope, and what is the meaning of that? I have said on several occasions that Mahama can only president in Ghana where the average voter votes base on "FOOD", yes, because Mahama as president from 2 ...
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  • Kofi Nti 1 day ago

    The govt is using over $3billion to construct the expressway. This amount can build the Pwalugu Dam with enourmous multipier effect than the expreeway. Its shocking.

  • Kofi Nti 1 day ago

    Pwalugu Dam benefit
    1. Control flood from biagre dam
    2. Produce power
    3. Irrigation for agric
    4. Increase food and cash crops
    5. Employment
    6. Agro processing factories
    7. Increaee fish stock

  • Baga 1 day ago

    Are you serious, sometimes? You need infrastructure to develop to create job, I don't know if you're going to carry to tomatoes on your head to the consuming centers.

  • Twe 1 day ago

    Mustapha Gbandeh says the NDC has solved the unemployment problem , ( MISSION ACCOMPLISHED )

  • Prayer 1 day ago

    The truth is bitter! It takes a while to sink in. By then....

  • Lance 1 day ago

    So what is Mahama doing with the 10 billion goldboard earned. Why is he not deducting 3 billion out to create jobs for about three hundred thousand young people. They are waiting for npp to come to office and copy it and do j ...
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  • CAN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY ALL GHANAIANS?- Ghanawatch 1 day ago

    The government cannot employ all jobless ghanaians. This is the reality Ghanaians must accept.
    I hope Martin Kpebu is aware of that.

  • Atsu 1 day ago

    Sammy Gyamfi has stolen all the money for Mahama and Ibrahim Mahama 22 billion Ghana cedis.

  • 24HR ECONOMY YAAMUTU! 1 day ago

    Kpebu the fvvls will come after you oo!

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 day ago

    UNEDUCATED ATSU THE FOOL

  • Helen 1 day ago

    I was in Singapore few months ago and what I saw! If we can work with them to help modernise farming in Ghana, there will be no unemployed Ghanaian after 10yrs. Unfortunately, we are destroying our water bodies and poisoning ...
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  • Kofi Ghana 1 day ago

    NDC should not forget that NPP lost the 2024 elections in 2022 two clear years before the elections. The NDC too may suffer the same faith if the party is not careful. Many people are jobless in the country and are struggling ...
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  • 24 hour economy 1 day ago

    24 hour economy idea should incorporate incentivizing companies that are willing to invest and run 24 hour services. It may not work for every business as it’s more of demand driven than policy

  • Yao 1 day ago

    Don't worry Mr. Kpebu, the 24 Hour Markets will create jobs....lol

  • Pelicles 1 day ago

    Who said that "I am not a magician to provide jobs for jobless Ghanaians"? Mahama said that as president from 2012-16, and what can he do now or he has learnt the act of magician?

    Yesterday, he was seen commissioning the ...
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  • Atsu 1 day ago

    Incompetent John Mahama came to steal for himself and family who says he can create a single job

  • Hanson K.K 1 day ago

    Martin, you have said it all. Some of us can't understand the hide and seek game of the government with regard to unemployment.
    Unemployment made them loose 2016 election.
    Education and Health sectors can employ as many t ...
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  • kwame 1 day ago

    Absolutely spot on. He could not have been more direct and forceful

  • Big Daddy 1 day ago

    There’s unemployment even in America!
    Give us a break!
    How many jobs did NPP create?
    Roads everywhere, don’t they create jobs??
    Rubbish

  • Schoolboy Reports 1 day ago

    @Big Daddy/There’s unemployment even in America!/What Is The Relevance Of The United States /In A Matter Of The Welfare Of The Ghanaian People And Their Leadership

  • CB Agyeman 1 day ago

    Kpebu,2013-16 how my youth in this country got employed by John mahama and your NDC.Kpebu were you not in this country from 2013-16 when Mahama said he wasn't a magician to employ everyone when the youth complain about unempl ...
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  • Capt Adabuga 1 day ago

    Why the lamentation Martin? NDC has created more jobs in the galamsey sector since independence than any other government

  • Koi Nimo 1 day ago

    Martin Kpenu, how could 13% by the GSS and about 5% by the UN be 54%? Please stop the intellectual deceit.. you are slowly losing whatever name and credibility you have… stop lying!!!

  • DU 1 day ago

    I.don't know.the.last time the World.Bank.or.IMF told Russia or China or Brazil or etc that they've made losses or the proprotion of their population living in poverty, wtc. If we don't sack these people to jave our peace of ...
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  • Schoolboy Reports 1 day ago

    When Ghanaian Eventually Eat Their Utazi Soup/Or It's Ghana Equivalent & Recover These Are The Question That Have Been Waiting For Them To Answer The First Is How They Are Going To Find The Foreign Exchange To Pay For The Imp ...
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  • Schoolboy Reports 1 day ago

    Of The Manufactured Products The People Of Ghana Need To Make Life Bearable/ When The Gold/Timber/Oil/Gold Ghana Exports To Earn Foreign Exchange Runs Out

  • Schoolboy Reports 1 day ago

    &The Second Question Being How Long It Was Going To Take For The Practice Of Economic Policy Dis/Continuity To Be Brought To An End/ So Ghana Can Move On

  • Maame Abenah 1 day ago

    President Mahama, the future of Ghana belongs to our children, they are hungry, and have resulted to galamsey to feed themselves. They voted for you, because you promised them a 24hr economy, they are waiting patiently for yo ...
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  • Walabi 1 day ago

    @Maame Abenah, JM is not a Houdini to create so much jobs under 2 years .It is impossible. Not even Singapore could do that.

  • Ablekuma Van Damme 17 hours ago

    DID SOMEBODY FORCE HIM JM TO MAKE THE 1 3 3 PROMISES???? DID SOMEBODY PUT A GUN TO HIS HEAD TO TALK NONSENSE???

    HE SAID HE WILL DO IT. NOW HE HAS THE POWER SO LET HIM DO IT!!!

  • Nkwa Kwame 1 day ago

    If we had a National development agenda that every Party in power must follow religiously, Ghana would have been developed by now. The sad thing is that we have wasted so much time since 1979 with unnecessary Political bicker ...
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  • Kojos 23 hours ago

    Aban papa aba. NDC is a waste of time. Same old school. Bread and butter. Nothing new to offer. Both the president and the vice were garbage. Empty heads building market in 21st century is a joke.

  • Paapa 23 hours ago

    Take this guy out of you way. A word to the wise is enough!! He is not trustworthy. He got what he wants. If there is a problem why don't you go to the one who appointed you but rather rather...You're a hypocrite

  • Kido 22 hours ago

    I don’t understand what Martin Kpebu is talking about. Since when did unemployment become scary in Ghana? Leave the government to focus on its work?

  • Future Judge 21 hours ago

    Kpebu is talking about possibility of using a magic wand to create jobs? To say something softly, I will say, Mahama has began well and is heading towards the right direction. However, I feel angry and I mean very mad if I he ...
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  • Paapa 20 hours ago

    I think this guy was appointed to bring his knowledge and ideas to build the system but rather he goes about talking nonsense, please sack him immediately

  • Government should not employ. 19 hours ago

    Yes, but government should not give in to the many companies and government institutions that want clearance to employ thousands of workers. Most are already over staffed.
    They make such demands only to employ their children ...
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  • Koppong 19 hours ago

    When you guys killed 1D1F, how do you employ ?

  • Kweku 19 hours ago

    Political parties in Ghana have no Idea to solve the youth unemployment in the country. NDC and NPP politicians are only interested in winning political power and sharing appointments among themselves.

  • OZYMANDIAS 18 hours ago

    Does this lawyer ever gets time to go to court to defend his clients?

  • David 12 hours ago

    The macroeconomic indicators are doing well but unfortunately, these successes are not translated into increased job avenues for the youth. I fully agree with Martin Kpebu on this issue