According to Sammi Awuku, Director General of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA), young people were lost, despondent, and depressed during the Mahama government in 2016.
However, he claimed that under the Akufo-Addo administration, the situation is not the same.
Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Youth Organizer Johnnie Hughes told Johnnie Hughes on the New Day show on TV3 on Thursday, February 3, that millions of young people now have hope thanks to projects like the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative, which he says never existed under the Mahama administration to support the youth.
“What I saw in 2026 is different from what I see now in 2022. In 2016the young people felt desolation, they felt disoriented , they felt dispirited and they felt disenchanted . Today what I see is they see that some of their colleagues have gotten jobs , they are praying and pushing that it gets to their time.
“Even though Nana Addo and his administration haven’t provided jobs for every young Ghanaians, nobody can also tell me he doesn’t know one person who hasn’t been employed under this administration.
“So you can point to one person meaning that we have made progress however because of the backlog , if you had four hundred thousand people entering the job market every year calculate it form 2017 to even 2021 . The five years is giving 2million young people. 2 million young people absorbing them wont be easy.
“If you go to elsewhere, the government even guaranteed a loan for young people, if you go to India it similar, when yuou want to go into entreoprebuership. What the Akufo-Addo administration has started with with the 1D1F, we will start seeing results of it after three or four years.
“Why because at that time you will have a whole value chain of these entities, factories that will also help curb the rural urban migration.”
Source: GhanaWish.com
