Ghana Center for Entrepreneurship?

Will it be a reality or a mere campaign promise?

PRESS RELEASE

We the Concerned Citizens of Ghana are calling on the Government of Ghana

to as a matter of urgency implement its budget item of setting up a Center

for Entrepreneurship, Employment and Innovation.

Following questions on Youth Unemployment asked the soon to be

Vice-President of this Country at his vetting today, we believe the

initiative of the Ghana Center for Entrepreneurship, Employment and

Innovation is key and timely and will go a long way to reduce Unemployment

in this Country, particularly given its core intentions and set targets as

we are told in the budgetary provision(page 24, paragraph or item 107 in

the 2012 Budget Highlights) to be a one-stop shop for Entrepreneurs,

harmonizing the capital market, increasing access to credit for SME’s,

promoting job creation and innovation in Ghana.

This undue delay in implementation, we believe can cost the nation greatly,

particularly since we’ve not heard anything 8 months down the line and the

youth of this country are engaging in numerous vices in our society.

The question we are asking is what is going on?

Is it another lie and propaganda from this Government?

We are grappled with rising Youth Unemployment in this country and when an

initiative recommended by the World Bank and others has been put forward,

Government seems to be silent on this initiative and yet was on tertiary

campuses telling the youth of this country what it will do.

Our simple appeal is to have answers to these questions, and we believe the

media is the right platform and tool to ask the Minister for Employment,

Minister for Finance and those responsible for its implementation.

Is it that it has been implemented and we don’t know what they are doing

now?

What is the future of this initiative? Please help us ask the questions…….

We need to know, we are not issuing this statement to be popular or to be

noticed in society but we think it is imperative on us as concerned

citizens to ask such questions.

We are an advocacy group championing the cause of economic development in

Ghana and hope you in the media will contact the authorities responsible to

provide some answers.

Regards,

Kofi Nartey,

Spokesperson.

(0204359919)