The Founder of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum, has called for more investment for the educational sector targeted at achieving higher literacy in Ghana.<\/p>\n
He argued that if such efforts are not adopted, the country will continue to suffer the problems of underdevelopment.<\/p>\n
Dr. Nduom observed that, there is nowhere in the world that development had occurred without higher levels of literacy, adding that only education can catapult a\u00a0country from economic dependency to economic independence.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”JRehPTw9NWWcC9BRD74LDZqvJGAS31Ty”]He therefore urged Ghanaians to demand from elected officials to make the right and necessary investments in the education of Ghanaians, stating it is only through education that inhabitants from rural communities can change their economic status from poor to well-to-do.<\/p>\n
Dr. Nduom was addressing students of the Catholic University College in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo region when he made the remark.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if I go to Sampa\u00a0 and I want to put a manufacturing company there, I go to Hamile and I want to put\u00a0 a manufacturing company there, who am I going to employ there if most of the people haven\u2019t gone pass basic education?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He stressed that without vigorously educating the rural folks, nobody will plan establishing factories in those of parts of the country to boost the local economy there.<\/p>\n
“If [a businessman] is not from Ghana and they are coming from the US, UK or Japan or anywhere else, will they even think about [bringing] jobs to Sampa or Hameli or Gemini in the Volta region or any of those places, absolutely not. They would want to come to Accra, Tema or maybe to Kumasi. Even in the oil and Gas [found in the Western Region] their offices are in Accra.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Nduom says the lack of human resources for folks in the countryside has hampered his attempts at employing indigenous people to fill positions at local GN Bank branches across the country.<\/p>\n
He further expressed the hope to increase the number of GN bank branches across the country from the current 245 to 300 branches before the end of this year.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Founder of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum, has called for more investment for the educational sector targeted at achieving higher literacy in Ghana. He argued that if such efforts are not adopted, the country will continue to suffer the problems of underdevelopment. Dr. Nduom observed that, there is nowhere in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":218247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n