The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) says the unemployment rate in the country is inching higher because of poor governance.

Brigitte Dzogbenuku says the lack of commitment on the part of government has left the youth in the country “helpless and hopeless.”

She made the comment when the party’s founder and flagbearer, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom unveiled her as his running mate for the 2016 general election Thursday.

The selection of a female Vice President did not come as a surprise to political pundits because the PPP did same during the 2012 presidential election.

However, there was something different about her selection, especially when in her acceptance speech berated the way government’s mismanagement has rendered the youth with no clear future.

She believes the government has put several challenges in the way of businesses which have shrunk the opportunities that were in the country some twenty-five (25) years ago.

“I am a Ghanaian who after University did my National Service and was quickly absolved into a job not because it belongs to a relative or someone I knew but because opportunities existed,” she said, adding, “Unlike today where hundreds of our youth are loitering the streets hawking or sitting helplessly and hopelessly under trees jobless.”

She says the yawning gap regarding opportunities that existed in the past and today is attributable to the commitment deficit in the country.

Government makes promises to create jobs but lacks the will to move them from paper to the field.

Jobs, she said can be created but anyone who wants to do that needs to know how and believe the jobs can be created.

The PPP to her has the men and women with great confidence, the know-how, and the commitment to deliver the public goods to Ghanaians.