Asante group urges government to create more jobs in Northern Ghana

Kumasi, Jan. 7, GNA - Asante United Front (AUF), a pressure group, has called on the Government to work hard to open job openings in the northern part of the country to stop the drift of the youth there to the South. It said the rate at which young people including minors in the three northern regions were migrating to Kumasi and Accra for purely economic survival reason should give cause for concern.

In a New Year message signed by Opanin Kwame Afreh, Chairman of the AUF on Friday, it said it was not in the nation's interest to see her able-bodied youth wander in the cities and 93doing all sorts of things jus= t to cling on to life."

The group said the situation needed to change by creating opportunities for them in their communities.

They also appealed to the Mills' Administration to organize a befitting funeral for Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The AUF said, although past governments had already performed some form of burial rites, the final rites were yet to be organized which it noted was not good. It appealed to Ghanaians to do away with apathy and re-dedicate themselves the socio-economic development of the nation.