Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has said the recently launched Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) by President Akufo-Addo is “political propaganda tool”.

According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawmaker, the programme is ploy by the Akufo-Addo led government to hoodwinking Ghanaians into retaining it in power in 2020.

Speaking on Newsfile on Joy News Saturday, Alhaji Fuseini said; “This is not employment. This is just a stopgap, adhoc measure to create the impression that government is doing something about unemployment in the country,”.

President Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday May 1, launched NaBCO, which will employ, in this year alone, 100,000 young men and women to assist in the public sector service delivery needs of Ghana.

According to President Akufo-Addo, “NaBCO will be the vehicle to deliver one hundred thousand (100,000) jobs in seven (7) prioritised areas, defined as the following modules: Educate Ghana; Heal Ghana; Feed Ghana; Revenue Ghana; Digitise Ghana; Enterprise Ghana; and Civic Ghana.”

Explaining the rationale for the establishment of the Corps, President Akufo-Addo noted that the grim story of youth unemployment has been a tragic part of the lives of Ghanaians for far too long in Ghana, worsened, in recent times, by the ban placed on public sector employment by the International Monetary Fund.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)  after the launch of the programme by the President has said NABCo offers no new plan to create jobs but a duplication of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).

Fuseini joins the tall list of NDC stalwarts not enthused by the NaBCo programme which was introduced by the Akufo-Addo led government to address Ghana’s teething graduate unemployment.

“I think that I have a fundamental difficulty in understanding the conceptual basis for this progamme,” Fuseini told host Samson Lardy Anyenini.  “It is simply part of the inefficiencies of government,” he added.

Government, according to him, following the launch of NaBCo “is clearly allocating our resources poorly” which will lead to taking on board too much expenditure that might not result in any meaningful impact on the lives of the people.