'Get a second job' - Kennedy Agyapong's post sparks reactions on social media

Social media users have been reacting to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, advising Ghanaians to seek additional employment for financial independence.

On March 1, 2025, Kennedy Agyapong tweeted, "If your salary can't sustain you, get a second job. The key to financial freedom is multiple streams of income."

This statement, however, sparked mixed reactions on social media. Some users agreed, but others pointed out the difficulty in securing even one job.

"Struggling to even get the first job." "The job too is not easy to get, Sir," some users replied.

Other users called on politicians to create a better environment for entrepreneurship.

"Politicians like you should focus on creating the right environment to support young entrepreneurs and their ideas," one post reads.

Some X users also lambasted the MP for the statement, accusing him and other businessmen of being ‘exploitative’ and ‘detached’ from the plight of ordinary Ghanaians.

“The most grating thing about made-by-Ghana wealthy men is how they won’t enjoy the loot in silence but always show up with unwanted and useless advice,” an X user replied.

“The capitalists always want you to believe you’re the problem. You’re not working hard enough. They don’t want you to believe it’s the exploitative system which has them hoard money they got from your labour,” another shared.

ID/EK

See the posts below:

If your salary can’t sustain you, get a second job. The key to financial freedom is multiple streams of income. #KenQuote pic.twitter.com/qkn9coCdZE

— Hon. Ken Ohene Agyapong (@honkenagy) March 1, 2025

Sir, if only successive governments have prioritised job creation, most people would be able to get multiple income streams to ease the burden of hardship.

I pray God helps our leaders current and future to see this light and make Ghana a better place for us all...🙏🙏🙏

— Ike De Bazooka Quartey (@ike_kortey) March 1, 2025

For your mind inside you spoil there aaama. You were a key member of a govt that had 8 years in power, raked in the highest revenue ever recorded and what did we get in return? The highest inflation _ food, highest unemployment, etc. Today you're here preaching. What you do?

— Manny (@MrMa_nuel) March 1, 2025

1/Please it does not work in this country because companies expect you to come in to work from 8:30 am to 6pm before you even move transportation is and traffic is a very big issue...saying something and having the infrastructure to make citizens life easier

— Peregrino (@wahab_amamoo) March 1, 2025

Yeah because the jobs are so easy to get and people don't leave home at 8am and return at 6pm. This is the guy who wants to be president btw. How laughable

— Nana Kwarteng  (@Nana_Kwarteng_) March 1, 2025

But Hon I did not hear you advising your party members to stop downgrading the 24hr economy initiative .if you believed the key to financial freedom is multiple streams of income why then your party members critiquing an initiative that would bring the solution

— Phildela (@Phildela32) March 2, 2025

In Ghana, getting one job is an ordeal. But the one job (especially a political appointment) can generate multiple streams of income: the legitimate and "the creative". It is all about getting a foot in the door, not multiple feet.

— Cadman Atta Mills (@CadmanAttaMills) March 2, 2025