Government is being asked
to put proper structures in place to make majority of the country’s graduates self-employed.
Ashanti and Brong Ahafo
Regional President of the Association of the Ghana Industries, Nana Asante
Frempong says students should be given the right training and orientation to
make them self-reliant after school.
He says government fiscal
policy should also ensure low interest loans are available for business start-up.
International Labour
Organization defines unemployment as numbers of the economic active population
who are without work but available for and seeking work.
It also includes people
who have lost their jobs and those who have voluntarily vacated their post.
Statistics
show the
current unemployment rate in Ghana is estimated at over 11 per cent with
graduate unemployment hovering around 27 percent.
Though man
y labour experts
have expressed worry over the growing canker government and stakeholders appear
helpless about the situation.
Nana Frempong believes
self-employment especially of young graduates is key to halting moral decadence
in the country.
“There must
be a good
match between the industries and the institutions as well as needs of the
Ghanaian society. Everybody want to be in banking and other areas where money
could be made overnight after graduation…….and this is the problem” he
emphasized.
Story By: Kofi Asante
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