Addressing patrons at the grand durbar of this year’s yam festival by the Chiefs and People of Awudome Traditional Area, the Traditional Leader explained that, although Secondary School Education is equally good, vocational and technical education provides skills that could make the children self-employed after school, without having to bear the brunt of the increasing unemployment in the country.

[contextly_sidebar id=”HKpzQGkuu1YycnLWH2pPdlGjzkjuxFAB”]“Even though the secondary school is also good, I plead that all of you advise your children to accept admissions in Technical and Vocational Educational Institutions which will prepare them for ready jobs after their training. The level of unemployment is high, and so I advise you train them to work on their own” he stated.                               

The Chief’s counsel renews calls by many to promote Vocational and Technical Education in Ghana as a game changer for the country’s development.

Although Technical and Vocational Education (TVE), are to equip students with technical and employable skills that could make them set up their own businesses, the seeming neglect demonstrated towards such educations in Ghana presents a negative picture of the prospects of TVE in Ghana.

This year’s yam festival was held at Awudome-Tsibu on the theme “ Fostering Unity through forgiveness and reconciliation” aimed at promoting unity among the seven communities of Awudome Traditional Area.

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By: King Nobert Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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She noted that most of the people within the Sub-Region have not realized the relevance of ECOWAS because governments have not been able to operationalize the structures for its effectiveness and efficiency.

Ms Tetteh was delivering the keynote address at a day’s ECOWAS Sensitization Workshop for Public Sector Workers in the Brong-Ahafo Region in Sunyani.

It was on the theme “Enhancing Public Sector Participation in the ECOWAS Regional Integration Process,” and attended by Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSO) in the Region.

The workshop was organized by the Ministry in collaboration with Media Response, a Civil Society Organisation, and similar ones have been held in the Greater-Accra, Eastern, Volta, Western, Central and Ashanti Regions.

Ms Tetteh said there is the need to work towards “an ECOWAS of People and not ECOWAS of Governments”, and therefore it will be appropriate for people in the Sub-Region to review and see what they can do differently to move ECOWAS forward.

She called for collaborative efforts to deal with the challenges facing ECOWAS Integration, since its establishment 39 years ago, and overcome them to make it effective.

Ms Tetteh was hopeful that President John Dramani Mahama being the current Chairman of ECOWAS, would implement the vision of peace and security, economic integration and infrastructure development towards addressing the objectives of ECOWAS when sworn into office would facilitate free trade and movement.

She noted, however, that most of the ECOWAS Protocols have not been implemented as required and cited Brong Ahafo Region which shares border with La Cote D’Ivoire, as having not been able to manage the process along their common borders losing many mutual benefits.

Ms Tetteh said there were many security challenges that were important to dialogue on them to minimize security threats, adding “Next year countries sharing borders with Ghana will conduct elections with heightened tension and the incidence of terrorism in the Sub-Region.”

She said the fact that terrorist activities are not prominence in Ghana with the free movement of people, any citizen in the Sub-Region can move in a peaceful and secured region to focus on achieving the goals and aspirations of ECOWAS supposed to be of people and not State.

Eric Opoku, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister said regional integration required the commitment and dedication of all and sundry to provide the needed push for its successful implementation.

Source: GNA

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