The Current NPP Leadership Lacks the Insight ofJurisdiction Economy – Ing. Charles Kwesi Taylor
Engineer Charles Kwesi Taylor, the President of ’50+1,’ a pressure group championing the interests of Ghanaian youth, has chastised the current leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party, describing them as people who lack insight into what is called the jurisdiction economy.
Justifying his assertions, Mr. Taylor opposed the building of the Kayayes Training Center in Accra because every government committed to empowering people establishes facilities in rural areas to help local residents develop their skills. Building such a facility in Accra, he argued, would only promote congestion in the city by attracting people from the northern regions, leading to increased rural-to-urban migration.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with DL FM’s Okogyeabour Ocran, he argued that the people in the northern parts of Ghana, if well empowered with resources, could help boost the country’s food security due to the area’s arable land. However, he suggested that the NPP government is indirectly moving the youth from the north to the southern part to garner political support for Dr. Bawumia.
This follows the government’s decision to build a training Center for the Kayayes at Madina in Accra.
According to Mr. Taylor, this is a lazy man’s approach to retarding the progress of the people in the northern parts of Ghana. He argues that those in the northern parts of the country need human empowerment in their own land, not learning makeup in Accra.
He questioned the data used by Dr. Bawumia to support the idea that learning makeup can enrich these Kayayes, pointing out that the youth already involved in the makeup business can barely survive.
“No need to encourage these youth to come down here because, the country has food production challenge whilst there’s Large Affable land size in the north…” The people only need empowerment in farming business to better the living rather than building a make-Up training Center for them in Accra…” He added.
Charles Kwesi Taylor suggested that, this Training Center should have been built in the North to Accommodate the youth in the northern regions than siting it in Accra.
By: N. Y. Adjapong, DL FM