The Unemployed Graduates Network (UGNET) has declared its intention to join the Yentua Demo organized by the #Fixthecountry campaigners and the Economic fighters’ league.
According to the group “the reason for the November 26, 2021 Yentua Demo by the organizers is in tandem with the position of UGNET on the 2022 budget statement so far as our area of utmost concern, job creation, is concerned”.
The group said “it is worrying that at a time government has shamefully confessed to doing little to tackle the yawning unemployment situation in the country, government is seeking to have parliament approve unconscionable cutthroat taxes and draconian economic policies”.
At a press conference in Accra on Monday, November 22, the Economic Fighters League described the 2022 budget statement by government as retrogressive and called on Ghanaians to reject the budget.
The group also announced its plan to stage a demonstration on November 26, 2021 to the Parliament of Ghana to compel law makers to reject the budget in its current form.
In a media release cited by Mynewsafric.com, the Unemployment Graduate Network stated that, “the budget seeks; bluntly, to callously steal from already struggling unemployed graduates by way of imposing obnoxious taxes to do things that will be of no benefits to ordinary citizens”.
“Instead of offering hope for unemployed graduates, the budget paints a rather gloomy and bleak future for graduates and students in tertiary institutions hoping to graduate from school and make a living, the group added”.
The UGNET also stated that the government has shifted from its responsibility of creating job opportunities for graduates but rather making them unemployed.
A confirmation of this according to the group was the e-levy proposed in the 2022 budget statement and economic policy.
