Ghanaian graduates told to seek employment in the private sector or explore the informal sector by Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama reports Ghana Star.
According to the President out of the 26 million populations in Ghana only 600,000 people are employed in the public sector.
“As graduates, you will be narrowing your prospects to aim at coming out to work in the public sector because only 600,000 are on the public sector payroll of the government,” said the President while speaking at the maiden congregation of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR).
The President urged UENR to take a proactive role in looking into the challenges of renewable energy and energy conservation to reduce the overreliance on the national grid. Assuring the University of support from the government in harnessing the variety of energy resources like solar, biomass, wind and alternative bio fuels including nuclear energy. Mahama further said that UENR must provide the intellectual and technological know-how needed to move the country’s economy, by bridging the gap between research and industries.
