To The Elderly With Love; An Open Letter The Elderly

Dear Elderly,

As a member of the younger generation, I want to ask what is it that you want from us? Are you trying to breed us as your heirs or you want to take up everything and present us to the whole world as failures?

When we want something, you make it impossible for us to get it. Education is what you advocate. Yes, you equated education to jobs, and yet our degrees do not match these jobs. You complain a good number of us don't have good morals but you are not just the thing either.

In Ghana, there are over 200,000 unemployed graduates; over and above that, over 71,000 will this year be pushed onto the job market from both private and public tertiary institutions. Hitherto, we were made to know that education would shield us against unemployment. However, today, education is a now a visa to the hideous country called unemployment.

Most of us are sick and tired of the hush-ups and suppression you've heeded to these days. After enduring the pains and twinges which is associated with examination, we are always left at the mercy of unemployment. You always sermonize that colleges and Universities are places of alchemy where we are guaranteed success which is in reality not the case. Instead of making schools training grounds for work, you make it a launch pad into further education. The higher we go, the more likely we are to be unemployment.

Saying you are morally bound than we are, you've changed the mode of admission into colleges from oral interviews to “huge brown envelopes”. And we demand jobs after completion, you tell us to set up our own businesses

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The YES Fund, initiated by one of your members, who seek to join our generation while in his 50's, was a laudable idea. However, it turned out to be NO. YES, which sought to transform our ideas to realities rather turned our ideas to thoughts. Technical schools have been neglected and here we are importing furniture to stock a house dominated by YOU.

When all our efforts prove futile and we take to the streets too register our concerns, you tell us not to engage in violence. And yet you pay us to engage in violence during elections. When we do them in the democratic way, you tell us “Montie Obiara”. Well done, “ԑnkyԑ biara mobetie”.

By: Kyei Marfo Emmanuel
E-mail: [email protected]
Blog: www.onuakyeimarfo.wordpress.com