Forum for Equity, a human rights non-governmental organisation,has called for critical thinking from the leadership of all spheres of endeavour to fix youth unemployment.
“Youth unemployment has become a time bomb tied around the neck of our beloved country, only waiting to explode and we have become scared and frightened into submission without applying pragmatic steps to free us from the impending catastrophe,” it cautioned.
Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of Forum for Equity,said the country had had modules and many academic attempts to rectify the seemingly impossible task, all to no avail and politicians failed to walk the talk.
He noted that often the political divide in grandiose eloquent language talk about how to tackle the problem immediately they come to power, but when efforts were measured, the scales tilt to failure.
“We are blessed with both natural and human resources and it is only reasonable we are capable of generating wealth and power, instead of rhetorical display of Shakespearen oratory and how many settlement farms do we have in the 16 regions?
“Investments in animal husbandry throughout favourable climatic zones in the country is another way of creating jobs for the youth, the Israelis are more than willing to help with kibbutz system of creating virtually an independent community lifestyle with technology and industry.
“All past governments will quote statistics to justify their efforts, but reality is how many Ghanaians can attest to such as evidence in their lives because planning should be useful and meaningful rather than political propaganda as there is no single household without an unemployed youth with various types of professional qualifications.
“We have become complacent about crucial issue, making it propaganda issue to be contested by power seekers without committed, dedication and determined passion to remedy and resources are naturally and evenly distributed throughout the country and it is only dedicated and practical results leadership can map out direction of wealth management to ease time bomb on our necks,” Mr Mba averred.
He indicated that international investors were willing and prepared to come into partnership for purposes of wealth creation and management and urged leadership to stop playing ostrich approach attitude. -GNA
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