Economist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Dr Twumasi Baffour Priscilla says the private sector should lead job creation in the country to help the economy.

Discussing both NPP and NDC manifesto, she said both parties acknowledged the need to change the structure of the economy to industrialisation.

However, the channel for such change was of major concern.

"The public sector should be productive to create the enabling environment for the private sector to thrive," she told host of JoyNews' Newsfile, Samson Lardy Anyenini.

Emphasising her stance, she relayed current employment statistics from the Akufo-Addo government.

"Looking at the NPP manifesto, they have acknowledged a number of programmes done that created two million jobs.

"Private sector created about 260,000 that is about 13 percent. And for a progressive productive society, the private sector should be driving the job creation and not government."

She was sceptical of promises made by both parties to provide millions of jobs because the country had significantly revised downward its growth number moving from 6.8 percent to 0.9 percent.

"These are not normal times and the parties need to acknowledge that the pandemic has had severe negative consequences on even the most productive and prosperous nations in the world," she added.

Dr. Twumasi raised concern over the NDC's 'Adwuma Pa plan' which indicated that young Ghanaians will be recruited annually into an expanded and productive public sector based on carefully conducted human resource gap analysis.

"I worry about something like this, why because we have issues with government wage bill," she added.