The formation of Unemployed Graduates Association of Ghana (UGAG) was born out of narrow-mindedness; that is according to the Chief Executive Officer of Bencyn Group of Companies, Benjamin Achaliwine Anyana.
In exclusive interview with A1radioonline.com on the sidelines of Womdai-Bu festival by the chief and people of Kazigo in the Kassena-Nankana municipality of the Upper East Region at the weekend, Mr. Anyana advised unemployed graduates not to join the association because opportunities abound to make them self-reliant and to employ others.
“Actually, Unemployed Graduates Association is below the belt. How can you say you are unemployed? Have you seen that those people who don’t go to school saying that they are unemployed? They are always working.
The illiterates always have work. You go to the village; you will not see somebody saying I don’t have a job.”
The Unemployed Graduates Association of Ghana seeks to promote the well-being of all unemployed graduates and offer employment opportunities for its members. But the business mogul who is well known in pharmaceuticals believes a solution to the unemployment situation in the country is by engaging unemployed graduates through entrepreneurial skills.
“You know in the past when you finished school, they gave you job but things have changed but we keep on thinking in the past. When you want to talk, they say that your time is past but the institutions that can survive in the 21st century must be able to adapt but that is what is missing in the current graduates.
According to Mr. Anyana, graduates are not able to adapt simply because “they are still sitting where it is over, yet they are still sitting there. Again, excuse me to say this; they feel they know, all the time, they feel they know – I’m a graduate, I have got first class and that is all.”
The entrepreneur therefore plans to set up a Business Academy to train unemployed graduates on entrepreneurial skills. “I am not bringing academics, I am bringing business people to come and talk to them on how they started”
By: Joshua Asaah|A1radioonline.com|Ghana
