2.6million jobs created yet 21.4% youth remain unemployed, give us a break, Bawumia

Bawumiah and his deserted father, Nana Addo, continue to claim that their government has been the only government to create many jobs in the history of Ghana. Despite their overwhelming jobs created within their tenure of office (2017-2024), youth unemployment rates stand at 21.4% and are still counting. According to Ghana Statistical Services (GSS), the rate of youths unemployed applies to people aged 15–35. Further data from GSS shows that people aged 15-24 are actively searching for jobs. The question still remains: Where are the Bawumia Nana Addo’s 2.6 million jobs created?

Embassies of the USA, Canada, the UK, and those of Europe get crowded every day with the youths of Ghana desperate to leave their home country, families, and friends for countries they perhabs do not have family relations with. Many of those who get lucky and are welcomed to the new countries go the facing one challenge or the other. Whatever the challenges, as a friend in the USA said to me, is worth it going through the furnace to get to the USA than stay in your own country where you face misery every morning you wake up? And for those who get rejected at the embassies, they never stopped trying over and over again because the furnace here in Ghana keeps getting hotter and hotter with every breath coming out from the nostrils of Bawumia and his uncle, Nana Addo. They’re aware of the situation, but they care not to do anything about it. They toast to the suffering of Ghanaians. Yet, all that Bawumia’s uncle could say is that it’s the turn of my nephew to take the steering wheel.

Fortunately, I met Bawumia on the streets of Makola Market, and I put to him some questions: Why is unemployment high? Why is the Cedi running for its life? Why are prices of foods so high? Why is the fuel price always rising? Why have you not increased salaries of poor Ghanaian workers? Why are nurses and teachers still suffering? Why are our hospitals on their knees? Why have our senior high schools turned into a cinema house? Why are most Ghanaians growing leaner and leaner while you, Nana Addo, and all your friends in the NPP look like Mauritanian women? And on a lighter note, tell me, why are your head and that of Nana Addo always shining like you apply shea butter every morning?

Having brought all these miseries on Ghanaians, you are asking us to give you the wheel. In fact, there seems to be no difference between you and Kamala Harris. In the US, still being the VP, she is asking them to vote for her so she will end the war in Gaza when her signatures are under every aid document sent to Israel and Ukraine. Why must we trust you when, as VP of Ghana, you have been a bad mate to your driver and have both led us into the mess? Do you take us for granted? May be yes, but I believe most thinking Ghanaians who feel the scorching economy will surely show it in December. I do not doubt that you could pull some votes as well because, like in the Greek amphitheaters, there will always be people who will always cheer the king up even when the king clearly messes up.

I remain one of the unemployed youths, Emmanuel Graham Nyameke.