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19.01.2017 General News

Stop Dreaming And Start Up - Advocacy For Youth Development Charges Youth

By Antwi Boasiako George
Stop Dreaming And Start Up - Advocacy For Youth Development Charges Youth
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The Acting President of Advocacy for Youth Development (AfYD), Mr George K. Antwi Boasiako has challenged the teaming Youth of Ghana especially graduates to stop dreaming of getting non-existing white colour jobs and start devising business ideas to start up small businesses. He said it is about time for we the Young people of Ghana to position ourselves and be entrepreneurial in order to be active partners in the economic development of the country. He insisted it is obvious that the government cannot create the required numbered of jobs to absorb the millions of unemployed Youth in Ghana.

Mr George added that despite the numerous but picturesque promises made by the Nana Addo led NPP government during the 2016 electioneering Campaign coupled with the subsequent creation of new Ministries, particularly the Ministry of Investment and Business Development intended to support private businesses, the hopes of the teaming Youth Of Ghana who are largely unemployed will be in shamble if the youth fail to be entrepreneurial and think of starting their own businesses.

The Acting President of Advocacy for Youth Development, a Youth led Advocacy group Mr. George K. Antwi Boasiako further intimated that what the government can realistically do will be to create the enabling economic environment for businesses to thrive especially start ups by young Ghanaian entrepreneurs. Cogent among such measures according Mr. George will be a vivid reduction in lending rate to enable young entrepreneurs to be able to easily access credit facilities to start and grow their own small scale businesses.

Again, the government must be in haste to fulfill its Campaign promise to reduce taxes especially on imported goods such as Printing materials, etc which will lead to a drastic reduction in cost of production since most of our raw materials are imported. And, as a matter of urgency reduce the killer 7.5% VAT which is virtually syphoning the profit of businesses in the country.

Moreover, the government must put measures in place to stop foreigners who are gradually taking over retail business in Ghana from Ghanaian business folks.

Other factors that will make it easy for more young people to start up their own businesses to augment the government's effort to create more jobs will be for the government to inject more Cash in the Youth Enterprise Scheme and to revamp MASLOC to be more transparent and accessible to all Young people with feasible business plans irrespective of their political orientation. These and many other factors apart from the direct jobs to be create if the popular NPP Manifest promise "One District, One Factory" is set in motion.

In conclusion, for the youth realize their dreams, we must think outside the box to start our own small businesses whereas the government through its Economic Management Team must craft executable Economic Policies to soften the economic grounds for small businesses.

ADVOCACY FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (AfYD) is a Youth led non partisan, and non religious Youth Advocacy group that seeks to advocate for the consultative involvement of young people in governance and the Empowerment of the Youth to be economically independent to secure the Sustainable future of our continent.

Signed By:
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Ms Suzzy Emekor Gaglo
Acting Executive Secretary
Allswell Adoboi Anum
Acting Vice President
Alfred Obimpeh-Obipeh Tumawu
Publicity Director
0243059622
George K. Antwi Boasiako
Acting President
Advocacy for Youth Development (AfYD)
[email protected] 0244016046
0208306070

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