I will end youth unemployment in Ghana – YEA boss

The Chief Executive of Youth Employment Agency-Ghana (YEA), Justin Kodua Frimpong has said that he will end youth unemployment in Ghana.

He said that the position he occupies is a critical one to help realise the government’s agenda of creating more jobs for Ghanaians.

“Hitherto, the YEA has been used for other purposes other than what was originally intended by the former NPP government, which established it. I am committed to modernising it to achieve its original purpose. The NPP government came into power on the promise of massive Job creation for Ghanaians.”

He added that the ‘Youth in ICT Module’ will be the pivot around which jobs will be created.

“If we can reorient the youth’s exposure to the Internet, I believe that we can end Cyber fraud and equipment them with stills to make legitimate income using the same computers.”

Justin Kodua Frimpong was addressing journalists in Philadelphia when he visited to explore strategies to solve the unemployment among young people in Ghana.

He has, therefore, began talks with executives of Online Trading Academy to make Ghana the first in Africa to benefit from internet trading education.

“The way forward for any economy in our generation is to maximise the power of technology. Over the years, the youths in Ghana either have not taken the fullest advantage of Technology or they have simply just abused this unbelievable resource,” explained.

He said his main aim will be to use technology to provide more jobs for the unemployed youth in the country.