Government claim of adding 70,000 jobs ridiculed
The government has drawn ridicule on social media after a minister claimed President Abdulla Yameen’s administration had created 70,000 jobs in the first two years of his presidency.
18 Nov 2015, 9:00 AM
The government has drawn ridicule on social media after a minister claimed President Abdulla Yameen’s administration had created 70,000 jobs in the first two years of his presidency.
Speaking at last night’s Youth Award ceremony, Youth Minister Ahmed Zuhoor said: “[A]ccording to information received from different industries in the employment market, around 70,000 jobs have been created in the past two years.”
Zuhoor did not provide any details of the new jobs or the sectors in which they were created, but said: “No youth will hesitate to call our president an economist.”
Yameen had promised to add 94,000 jobs in his five-year term.
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