Parliamentary candidate aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mathew Silas Amoah has dismissed perception that most youth are unemployed because they lack high academic qualifications.
Speaking in an interview on Dreamz FM on Sunday night, Silas Amoah argued that most of the youth can be employed as skilled labour if they are given the requisite hands-on training and resources to set up thus, do not need high academic qualifications to get jobs.
“We just have to fix the youth, get them jobs. When we say jobs, they say they have not gone to school, who told it’s only students that can get prominent jobs. I know a motor vehicle mechanic who makes money monthly than even a manager of a Bank because the service the car, they take,” he stated.
“So if you empower the youth, create jobs. Look, we have seamstress, we have hairdressers, we have fitters, mechanics etc. Bring a project, empower them, get money to start up something. Get them tools”.
He said the increasing rate of unemployment among young people in the country is due to leadership’s failure to empower them and create an enabling environment for them to thrive.
Silas Amoah believes the issue of unemployment will be tackled head-on if the youth are equipped with requisite skills for the job market and provided with capital to set themselves up.
“No politician can put monies in our individuals pockets but the politicians can create jobs that will employ the youth and trust me, when you employ one youth in a home, the youth is able to work, take salary, feed the father, feed the mother and probably pay the younger ones school fees”.
He said this while chastising Members of Parliament from the region for only being interested in securing the votes of the people and not their welfare.
He stated that while MPs from other parts of the country push for the development of their areas, their Upper East Region’s counterparts only return to their people when it is another election period to induce them with peanuts.
