By Dennis Pprah
Sunyani, (Bono), May 19, GNA – A cross section of the unemployed graduates in Sunyani, the Bono Regional capital on Monday called on President John Dramani Mahama to strengthen Ghana’s bilateral relations with Germany and the United Kingdom for job opportunities.
According to them, mostly university graduates, deepened bilateral ties between Ghana and Germany would offer travelling opportunities for the youth to find decent jobs in those countries and to build a better life for themselves.
They anticipated the President to push for labour opportunity and exchange programmes in vocational and employable skills training, technology, green energy, and youth employment.
That would open doors for the teeming unemployed graduates in the country to travel to Germany and the UK for job opportunities.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani Miss Fati Seidu, a university graduate, said, “Germany has a strong economic foundation and several job opportunities and it’s my desire and dream to work there.”
She called on the government to create opportunities for the unemployed graduates to access exchange training programmes in Germany.
Master Kwame Joshua, another unemployed graduate, said making it easier for the graduates to travel to Germany and the UK would also control irregular migration and its attendant consequences on the youth.
“So, we pray that President Mahama will strengthen our bilateral ties with Germany so that we will not continue wasting our exuberance here,” he added.
“If Germany becomes a visa free country for the unemployed youth, we can travel there for education, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities and thereby lessen our economic struggles,” he stated.
Pastor Joshua Jerry said, “We were colonized by the British, and we are already good at English, so it will be easier for some of us to integrate and work in the UK”.
“So, it makes more sense for the President to strengthen our bilateral relations with the UK for the opportunities out there”, Pastor Jerry added.
For Joyce Asieduaa, another university graduate, rising irregular migration of some of the graduates to fetch greener pastures abroad had landed most of them in slavery and exploitation.
“It’s therefore imperative for the government to make it easier for some of us who can’t find jobs here to travel there and to build our future”, she stated.
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