I’ll Prepare Our Youth For Global Opportunities – Bawumia

The Vice President and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated his desire to create job opportunities for Ghanaian youth in the digital space.

One of Dr. Bawumia’s flagship policies to better the lives of the youth is to train 1 million of them to acquire digital skills.

Addressing thousands of young Ghanaians at his community connect in Koforidua on Saturday, Dr. Bawumia stressed he is committed to executing this policy when he becomes President.

To him, the digital space offers many opportunities which the Ghanaian youth must be prepared to take advantage of.

“There are so many jobs and opportunities in the digital space, that is why I want to give 1 million Ghanaian youth training in digital skills…It will open more opportunities for them both in Ghana and abroad and I believe in the ingenuity of the Ghanaian youth, so we have to support them.”

“With a training in digital skills, you can sit here in Koforidua and work for any company here in Ghana and even abroad. This is the direction the world is going, so I want to prepare our youth to benefit from the immense opportunities of the digital space.”

Dr. Bawumia added that with his government intending to take Ghana’s digital experience to another level, he will scrap taxes on mobile phones.

He said; “With the work we are doing, the digitalization and the work we want to [give] them with the youth, taxes on mobile phones ought to go and I will take them off to make mobile phones cheaper and more affordable in Ghana.”

Source: Ghmessenger.com