National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, has accused President John Mahama led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of doing too little to inspire the Ghanaian youth to uplift themselves from abject poverty.
The “NDC”, he noted “is a bad business for the Ghanaian youth.”
“It is regrettable to state that the noble dreams of many young men and women which flourished under the previous NPP government have all of a sudden become nightmares under the John Mahama led National Democratic Congress government.”
“At present, the issue of unemployment has notoriously assumed legendary dimensions. Yet, government displays nothing by wanton cluelessness and ineptitude in respect of how to effectively deal with this national crisis with the necessary finesse. Consequently, the whole concept of youth empowerment has become a mirage; leaving the youth of the country in a rather sorry state,” he noted in a statement released in Accra on Wednesday to commemorate the International Youth Day.
He said while the previous government under the NPP bequeathed to Ghana a thriving national youth employment program which provided several job opportunities to the youth, the ruling party has on the contrary, destroyed all sources of job opportunities for the youth.
“If our highly skilled graduates cannot find jobs to do, then what becomes of the less educated in our society? Whiles the NDC government has woefully failed in this venture, it is unfortunate to state that, the complimentary role played by the private sector has also been gravely affected by the longest haul of ‘dumsor’ ever to be witnessed in the history of Ghana. Consequently, businesses have over the past few years been hit with rather high cost of production with the resultant effect of unprecedented job cuts.”
That aside, he said the frequent power outages have also gravely affected the country’s educational sector, with students being the most hit with the consequences.
According to Awuku, a careful study of the recently released results of the West African Examination Council would reveal that given the pass rate of core subjects, over 70,000 students would for the upcoming academic year not be admitted into any tertiary institution.
Worried about the trend of events, Mr. Awuku has therefore urged the youth to take their destiny into their own hands by becoming agents of change from the current status quo which militates against their personal and self advancement.
Source: GhanaWeb
