Ghana, a country in which more than 50% of its population is youthful, seems to be having problems with how to make good use of its vibrant youthful population.
For decades, the youth of this country have been bedeviled with the same old problems that every single government has tried to solve or better still has pretended to solve.
This throws into question the soundness of a raft of policies and youth development programs by authorities. Political actors and regimes have abandoned their responsibilities and social duties and adopted a pseudo- moralistic stance and advocacy on the so-called “youth empowerment” programs without any substantial implementation for a positive impact.
The outcome of this is the selling of the future of the Ghanaian youth through their corrupt and deceitful acts, which in effect, these malignant demons who engage in such acts enrich and entrench themselves, fail to relinquish power, and cause the lives of the Ghanaian youth to be miserable and the aftermath ramifications lives with their generation.
What is hope? – just to start with.
Hope is having a firm belief that there is a positive and bright tomorrow for someone. Hope is having a strong faith to be able to see the invisible and the courage to believe in what has not yet happened. Hope is having a strong sense of better outcome in what has not yet manifested. Hope is a function of FAITH for the visionary.—this is what the Ghanaian youth have been denied.
These questions echo everyday:
How long will the Ghanaian youth continue to suffer?
Is there any hope at all for the Ghanaian youth?
What are the authorities doing about it?
Oh, could the authorities be having a driving hand in creating this problem?
Could it be a self-engineered strategy by the authority?
These and many more questions are what this article aims to pose.
Certainly, the Ghanaian youth are not the leaders of Ghana’s tomorrow.
Come to think of it, how does one prepare somebody to take over the affairs one is handling in the nearest future without involving the individual in the decision-making process?
Why is it that, the youth are not called to sit round the tables where decisions are made for the future of the youth? The youth have been marginalized.
The administrations of the state [GHANA] are in the hands of old people, which most of them have overstayed their usefulness.
For instance, state-owned enterprises are headed and directed by old folks. These enterprises account for 50% of total national assets yet contribute less than 5% to the country’s GDP.
The government that told young people that, the public sector payroll is choked and cannot add to it new employees ( mostly young people ) is now interested in bringing and keeping old people and retirees in offices. – Where is the hope and the future for the youth?
By: Bright Anderson
