Over 200 students of the Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) have accepted the 24-hour economic policy of the NDC 2024 flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, as the ultimate solution to the graduate unemployment menace in the country.
They have pledged their readiness to vote for the NDC in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
The pledges were made at a day’s public forum organized for the students in CCTU by the Centre for Skilled Unemployment Ghana (CESU-Ghana) in Cape Coast.
The event was themed “Addressing the Impact of Skilled Unemployment on National Development and its Security Threat to Graduates.”
The Executive Director of CESU-Ghana, Joseph Danser, in his welcome address, pointed out that unemployment facing tertiary education graduates in the country poses a threat to the nation’s economy and security.
He called on the youth to refrain from the mentality that they were born into particular political parties and that policies of other political parties are of no relevance to them.
Professor John Gartchie Gatsi, who is also the head of the School of Business at the University of Cape Coast, noted that the days when firms or businesses used to come to institutions for graduate students for employment ahead of their graduation are over.
Hence the need for graduate students in the contemporary world to exhibit their entrepreneurial skills by setting up their own jobs or venturing into digitalization so as to help curb the menace of unemployment.
The TEIN President at CCTU, Ernestina Kukua Frimpong , thanked the leadership of CESU-Ghana for the opportunity offered students in the institution.
This, she explained, will enable them to gain in-depth knowledge of issues that act as hindrances to opportunities that come with tertiary education in the country.
She used the occasion to ask all students in the country to endorse the 24-hour economic policy of John Dramani Mahama.
The MP for the Cape Coast North Constituency, Dr. Kwamina Minta Nyarko, lauded CESU-Ghana for the public forum, enabling students to better weigh the advantages of the 24-hour economic policy of John Dramani Mahama and the failed economic policies of the NPP in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections before exercising their franchise.
Dr. Minta Nyarko noted that though the NPP has nice policies like the Planting for Food and Jobs, because those economic policies are not good, the nation is now experiencing higher inflation and unemployment menaces.
He therefore asked the youth to endorse the 24-hour economic policy by voting massively for the NDC in the upcoming elections.
The MP for Cape Coast South, George Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, in an interview with our news team after addressing the students, noted that Ghana is sitting on a time bomb as skilled graduates from the nation’s tertiary institutions continue to grapple with unemployment.
He noted that if this menace is not addressed on time, problems that have resulted in the dissolution of the cabinet in Kenya can affect the country.
Mr. Hagan saw no sense in the situation of Kenya where the unemployed youth had to pay taxes in their own country.
He blamed the NPP for introducing economic policies that are not viable, citing the National Corps, One village, One dam, and many others as clear evidence.
He therefore called on all to endorse the 24-hour economic policy that has worked in other parts of the world.
Source:kofitutunews.com
