Over two hundred Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) students have accepted the 24-hour economic policy of the NDC 2024 Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, as the ultimate antidote 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 Public Forum organized for the students in the CCTU by the Center of Skilled Unemployment Ghana (CESU-Gh) in Cape Coast. The event was under the theme, “Addressing the Impact of Skilled Unemployment on National Development and its Security Threat to Graduates”
In his welcome address, the Executive Director of the Center of Skilled Unemployment – Ghana, Joseph Danser pointed out that unemployment menacing tertiary education graduates in the country poses a threat to the nation’s economy and security. Hence the need for CESU-GH has endorsed the 24-hour economic policy of the 2024 NDC Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, to engage students in tertiary institutions across the country to accept the message on the 24-hour economic policy for sustainable development of the youth in the country.
Mr. Danser called on the youth in the country to refrain from the mentality that they were born into particular political parties and, for that matter, policies of other political parties are irrelevant to them. He attested that as a former student leader of the entrepreneur and advocate for employment opportunities if the citizenry accepts the 24-hour economic policy of John Dramani Mahama, it will be the surest way of addressing graduate unemployment and other economic challenges facing the nation. The policy will help generate enough revenue for the needed developments through paying taxes. He added.
The chairman for the Public Forum, Professor John Gartchie Gatsi, who doubles as the head of the School of Business at the University of Cape Coast, noted that the days when firms or businesses used to comb from institution to institution for graduate Students for employment ahead of their graduation is over. Hence the a need for graduate students in the contemporary world to exhibit their entrepreneurial skills by setting up their jobs or venturing into digitalization to help curb the menace of unemployment.
The TEIN president at the CCTU, Philippa Obeng Asamoah, thanked the leadership of the CESU -Gh for the opportunity offered to students in the institution. This, she explained will enable them to gain in-depth knowledge of issues that act as hindrances to opportunities that go 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 the CESU -Gh for the public forum for the students, explaining it will enable them to better weigh possible advantages of the 24-hour economic policy of John Dramani Mahama and those who 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 Rockettes 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 were not viable. He identified the National Corp, One Village, One Dam, and many others as clear evidence. He therefore called on all to endorse the 24-hour economic policy that works in other parts of the world.
