The Deputy Communication Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Malik Basintale was captured on live TV claiming there were barely 800,000 unemployed people when the NDC left office in 2016.
According to Malik Basintale when the NDC was leaving the government unemployment was barely 800,000 but today unemployment stands at 1.6 million to 1.8 million.
Speaking on the GHONE State of Affairs program Malik Basintale is quoted saying, “When the NDC was leaving government in 2016, the number of people that were unemployed where barely 800,000. Unemployment under the NDC was 7%. Bawumia claims that they have created 2.6 million jobs”.
“If indeed what Bawumia had said was true, then today we should have been in the negative unemployment in the country. Today the number of unemployed people in the country stands at 1.6 million to 1.8m, raising the bar to 14.7%.”, he added.
Reports based on EIB Research Desk on his two claims have revealed that, while the claims by Malik Basintale that the country’s unemployment rate now stands at 14.7% with 1.8 million unemployed people are true.
However, documents and reports do not support his claims that the NDC under the John Maham administration left the government in 216 with an unemployment figure of just 7% and barely 800,000 unemployed Ghanaians, this claim is factually false.
