Deputy Minister-Designate for Sanitation and Water Resources, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, says the government cannot employ more than thirty percent of Ghana’s working class into the public sector.
He said the world over no country has succeeded in employing more than thirty percent of its working-class in the public sector.
Mr. Chinnia noted that the only way for Ghana to rid out unemployment is to ensure that the Technical Universities adhered to their core mandates by developing the skills of human resources.
The Deputy Minister-Designate said this at the second Congregation of the Dr. Hilla Liman Technical University at Wa in the Upper West Region.
He said the concept of Polytechnics now Technical Universities is to bridge the gap between the learned and the middle class which emphasis on skills development.
Mr. Chinnia said, that was the basis for the institution of the polytechnics concept now Technical Universities. Mr. Chinnia, pointed out that even the American government is unable to employ all the people within the working class into the public sector. He noted that majority of the people are employed by the private sector.
He observed that if the Technical Institutions go by their mandate, they will enable students to acquire skills for self-employment or secure jobs in the private sector.
Mr. Chinnia urged Ghanaians to reflect on what is happening in China, Europe, America, and some other parts of the world. He noted that those countries have a high rate of employment because they invest massively in skills development. All their institutions focus on skills development. Their graduates he noted, easily gain employment not because the government had created job opportunities in the public sector, but the skills they have acquired from the school.
He mentioned that a high rate of unemployment in any country has a serious security threat to the general populace and it should be the collective interest of all to ensure that everybody gets employed.
Source: A1Radiooline.com | 101.1MHz | Dennis Bebane |Ghana
