It also exposed this government for what it truly is a more-talk-do-nothing government. If the job fair served any purpose, it would be bringing to fore the depressing nature of the unemployment situation in Ghana and also deriding the cooked data on job creation this government pushes out through its dishonest PR infrastructure. It is obvious as it is like this government to prefer form to substance, hence the needles outdoor gathering for the camera and nothing else. It is unbelievable that a youth-oriented state organization such as the YEA, under this government whose Vice President has been touted as the “digital king”, could not find a more innovative way of matching the credentials of job seekers to potential employers but rather had to resort to these risky and archaic ways of doing things. The Youth Employment Agency (YEA), which had organized this POPULIST job fair with the hope of misleading well-thinking members of society into believing that they were trying to help solve unemployment among the youth rather exposed their ineptitude as their costly and counterproductive ways of organization led to a stampede which left a dozen of young people injured. Last week, the charade of a job fair organized by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) at the Accra International Conference Centre saw thousands of unemployed youths trooping in to present their Curriculum Vitae (CVs) with the hope of getting an opportunity.
There is a great need to examine initiatives and policies that have been introduced in the name of providing youth employment. It is a problem that is often swept under the carpet, with empty rhetoric, inflated employment figures, and substandardly packaged temporary employment schemes that pay a pittance to beneficiaries.
Unequivocally, unemployment remains the biggest threat to our national security. At the launch of a World Bank report in September 2020, The World Bank’s country director for Ghana, Pierre Frank Laporte remarked that “Ghana’s youth employment challenge is vast and requires an all-round, deliberate, and consistent response,”. We are a country whose young people are in trouble and troubled.ĭespite successive governments rolling out countless employment schemes, Ghana is reportedly faced with 12% youth unemployment and more than 50% underemployment, both higher than overall unemployment rates in Sub-Saharan African countries. President Akufo-Addo has failed to take young people to the historic promised land of biblical Canaan and its effect is a growing despondency that is a ticking time bomb. The situation of young people amounts to a human being without a spirit and a captivating football match without the spectacle of fans in the stadium.
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