Businessman and philanthropist, Dr Kofi Amoah, has called for a sober reflection on the occasion of Ghana’s 68^th Independence anniversary celebration, declaring that the time had come for the country’s leaders to stop promising what cannot be accomplished and start sowing seeds of real hopes of good paying jobs for everybody able to work.

In a social media post last Thursday as Ghana chalked 68 years as a nation-state, Dr Kofi Amoah, affectionately called Citizen Kofi said he and majority of Ghanaians are unhappy about the state of the nation, vis-à-vis the enormous potential of the country considering the vast mineral and human resource the country is blessed with.

He asserts that one of the cardinal reasons for Ghana’s lack of real progress in the last six decades is the failure of leaders to “realize that the impenetrable curtain between us and developed societies is our inability to see nexus between work and progress, JOBLESSNESS and POVERTY!!

He adds, “We cannot continue pontificating ludicrously from religion to digitalization, free and fair election to free and ‘inferior’ education when our people are poor, jobless and without hope, with our fertile lands vacant, the power of the sun energy we have in abundance untapped … and we keep borrowing gargantuan sums of which substantial portion is filtered away into corruption…”

This situation, he maintained is an important and existential matter for Ghana.

In his call to action, Dr Amoah, credited as one of the pioneers of money transfer service to Ghana and Africa through a strategic alliance between Western Union and African banks said the time had come to “stop pretending and start performing.”

Dr Amoah adds that artificial and casual employment which are usually created for political expediency isn’t the way to go but rather “jobs that pay living wages, not wages to enslave but to lift up body and soul… can we all focus on this one thing and get it done, and witness the explosion of heart-felt joy and sustainable progress. So on this day, let’s resolve to do and to build that which can bring real happiness for Ghana and ourselves…

JOBS FOR ALL, MONIES IN OUR POCKETS, HAPPINESS APLENTY

 Omanyi Yɛsiimu Akye…  Moma yɛ nyan kasa bebree, wai menyuanom

ADWUMA

akatua pa!

JOBS…

good-paying!!

THAT’S THE REAL INDEPENDENCE GHANA NEEDS AND DESERVES.

Unemployment and underemployment remains one of the biggest threats to Ghana’s democracy.

According to a 2023 data from the Ghana Statistical Service, the average rate of unemployment in the country has risen to 14.7 percent. The data also revealed that the number of unemployed youth aged between 15 and 35 rose from about 1.2 million to over 1.3 million during the same period with the rate among females consistently higher than males.

This is according to records sourced from the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey Quarter Three Labour Bulletin by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).

Meanwhile, the new NDC government led by President John Dramani Mahama has promised to fix the economy with their widely accepted slogan of RESET.

The presidency only a few days ago organized a National Economic Dialogue, where key stakeholders from Civil Society Organizations, policy makers, media, members from industry and academia were brought together to find ways of reviving what experts say is a troubled economy.

Ghana is currently under an IMF Program after the country was locked out of the international fund market.