GOV’T WILL EMPLOY UNEMPLOYED
NURSES, MIDWIVES –PRESIDENT ASSURES
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, has stated that “Ghana needs all its trained manpower to be at
work”, and, therefore, has assured unemployed nurses and midwives they will
soon be employed by government.
President Akufo-Addo acknowledged that he was aware of
the recent sit-ins at the Ministry of Health by a group of nurses and midwives
who are yet to be placed, years after completing their training.
In his May Day speech, the President indicated that “my
government is your government and we are listening to your concerns. We are
determined that, together, we will find sustainable solutions. Ghana needs all
its trained manpower to be at work.”
He noted that in the run-up to the 2016 elections, “the
subject of nurses and teachers featured a lot in the recent elections. There
was the vexed question of their allowances. We promised to restore them and we
have.”
Office of
special prosecutor will be established
Touching on the issue of corruption, President
Akufo-Addo reiterated his government’s commitment to using all available tools
to fight the canker of corruption, “for we know how much it destroys our
chances at progress and prosperity.”
To this end, he stressed, again, that “the Office of
Special Prosecutor is going to be established so that the prosecution of
corruption is taken out of political controversy, and thereby enhance the
integrity of the rule of law.”
Ghana must turn over
a new leaf
Under his tenure of office, President Akufo-Addo is
urging Ghanaians to turn over a new leaf and a new page in the history of the
nation.
“I want us to believe in our capacity to build a
modern, developed, progressive nation, and free ourselves from the mindset of
dependence, aid, charity and handouts. We can, together, build a new Ghanaian
civilization, where there is fair opportunity for all in education and health,
where hard work, enterprise and creativity are rewarded, where there is an
abundance of decent jobs with good pay, where there is a dignified retirement
for the elderly, and where there is a social safety net for the vulnerable and
disadvantaged,” he said.
The founders of Ghana, he noted, chose the Black Star
as part of our national colours because
“they envisaged us as a shining example to the black peoples of the world of
what a free, dedicated, enterprising Ghanaian people can do to build a society
the equal of any, any where on the face of the planet. Let us be up and doing.
Our destiny beckons.”
source:Kulenunewsblog
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