Former President John Mahama has expressed displeasure on how previous and the current government ignore youths when they attain power.
Speaking to the chiefs and people of the Upper West Region on Tuesday, August 17 as part of his thank-you tour after the 2020 elections, he made this pronouncement.
Mr. Mahama who was the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in last year’s polls noted that the youth need employment to enable them to keep body and soul together hence their call for the system to be fixed.
“Our youth are getting disappointed in our democratic governance; they don’t see any future for themselves. One of the major tragedies of this administration which is intangible is the fact that our institutions are being bastardized. As the institutions are bastardized people don’t see any future in terms of what opportunities are available for them.
“Youth unemployment has been a problem for governments all over the world but is particularly a problem for governments in Africa. We have twelve million graduates coming out of universities and tertiary institutions all across the African continent yet we are producing six and seven million jobs a year and so what happens to the other five million graduates who cannot find employment”, he stated.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
