The next NDC government will prioritize the growth and development of vocational trades to help create job opportunities for the youth. Mr Peter Abaje, Asante-Akim North constituency Chairperson of the NDC, who stated this, said vocational trades such as tailoring, dressmaking, barbering, hairdressing, and others, played critical roles in job creation and there was the need for their support. He was speaking at a meeting with various trade groups and associations at Agogo, as part of the door-to-door campaign strategy, aimed at reaching out to the grassroots for their support in the December general elections. It was also aimed at interacting with them to identify some of the challenges facing them and see how the party could help address them when voted into power. Mr Abaje said the next NDC government would offer financial support to small, micro, and medium scale enterprises to enable them stay in business, grow and expand to help create employment for the people. He said the NDC government's 24-hou r economic policy would offer incentives and make artisans and people in vocational trades stay in business and grow. Mr George Kwakye, Chair of the Municipal Tailors and Dressmakers Association expressed the readiness of members to repay any form of financial support extended to them by government or financial institutions to expand their businesses. Source: Ghana News Agency