Youth call on Mills to probe Ministries

The youth of Ghana are vehemently calling on President John Evans Atta Mills as a matter of urgency to set up independent committees to probe all Ministries in the country.

The youth alleged that there are a lot of financial malfeasance, corruption, thievery and other anti-social behaviours characterizing the activities Ministries.

They mentioned the Former Minister of Sports, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak's case as a classical example.

The youth poured out this displeasure at the opening of a two day 2nd Pan-African youth summit themed “Positive Reasoning for a Meaningful Change” in Accra, over the weekend.

The summit was organized by the Leaders' Navigators Group; an Accra based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).

The objectives of the summit include educating the youth on how to change their mindsets, thoughts and behaviour.

He called for the positive orientation of the youth in Africa to enable them contributes their quota to the development of the African continent.

Mr. Ezekiel challenged the youth that “The future prospect of every country can directly be measured by the current prospect of that country”, emphasizing that if the youth in Africa do not take care, ten years to come, Africa would be colonised again.

In the area of ICT, he noted that Africa is seriously behind the rest of world. When children in Japan, USA and China are using ICT to do wonderful things, their African cohorts are using it for “Sakawa”-internet fraud.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Golden Future Promotion, Mr. Charles Sam, who was the main speaker, added that the current civil servants are more corrupt than the politicians, saying “most of them are putting up mansions and using lavish cars among others”.

He argued that for Ghana to attain a middle-income status, national focus must be put on the younger generation rather than the octogenarians.

Mr. Sam appealed to Ghanaians not to vote for anybody above 50 years old to be President of Ghana and Member of Parliament (MP).

Mr. Sam stressed that “anybody above 50 years old should not be elected as President of the land. Look at the developed world, all their leaders are less than 50 years of age and they are performing wonders in their countries”.

Mr. Sam, who is also a media practitioner, used the summit to call on the government to reduce the level of importation of foreign goods and wean itself off from the Breton Wood Institutions, namely the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He emphatically stated that the World Bank and the IMF are not development partners but rather business partners. The CEO decried African leaders for constantly begging for funds from their developed counterparts when all the natural resources are abundantly in Africa.

Mr. Sam appealed to lecturers to desist from harassing young ladies in tertiary institutions, stressing that it does not augur well for meaningful teaching and learning. He challenged the youth to take responsibility for the positive transformation of Africa.