The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC)’s local network Garden City Television (GCTV) will recruit more workers this year. Mr. Samuel Kwatia, the Ashanti Regional Director revealed this in an interview on Garden City Radio in Kumasi.

The move according to Mr. Kwatia is measure to improve production and content on GCTV in the Garden City.

“GBC’s GCTV will need forty people for a single production; therefore we can’t take less than this number of personnel. We are taking forty people because of labor regulations. Though the private business man would like to employ less, we GBC do not have that luxury. It goes on for all other sections and department in GBC”. He confirmed

Unemployment has undoubtedly been one major problem facing most young graduates in Ghana. Most governments have tried to fight the menace through various policies and initiatives have been futile. The current NPP led government has tried by introducing policies like planting for food and jobs, Youths in

Agriculture and one district one dam, One Village One Dam which most of them are still to be witnessed by Ghanaians.

However, responding to criticism by people claiming the state broadcaster has too huge workforce, he said, “Of course our workforce is huge because the labor laws does not allow us to do it how others are practicing”.

He hinted in his interview that GBC alone employs about 1,500 workers adding that, the huge workforce is a step to abide by the labor regulations of the country.

He further urged Ghanaians to patronize local content to promote the art industry.