Dr. Kingsley Agyemang, the Registrar of the Scholarship Secretariat, has urged the younger generation to unite in support of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2024 Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Speaking at the All Nation University during the Career Conference and Alumni Engagement 2024 Hosted by the Department of Human Resources in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital, He emphasized the importance of voting in large numbers for Dr. Bawumia in the upcoming general elections, as he possesses a remarkable vision to bring about significant transformation in Ghana in the years ahead.
Dr. Agyemang mentioned that the government led by Akufo-Addo and Bawumia has made significant investments in the Educational sector since 2017, resulting in a remarkable transformation in the lives of many young individuals. Therefore, it is imperative to allow the NPP government to persist.
The 2024 Parliamentary Candidate for Abukwa South in the Eastern Region emphasized the significance of digital talent development, as highlighted by Vice President Dr. Bawumia, in preparing the youth for the fourth industrial revolution.
The foundation of everything in nature is information, if you take a critical look at the creation story as illustrated by the book of Genesis in the Bible, whatever God said and saw, was good. This depicts a clear architectural blueprint held in the creative impulse to which comparisons could be made information then is critical to empowerment, and thanks to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who focused his energies and legacy on the singular most important intervention in the history of Ghana, since our independence by executing the Free SHS education policy.
He revealed that the implementation of this policy has led has given millions of the youth in Ghana the opportunity to learn and prepare for the digital aged.
Today we are counting the over 5 million Ghanaian youth who have been equipped with the information, knowledge, and skills to embrace opportunities in a new world order that offers so much for the youth.
He stressed further that,
It is significant to note from this new paradigm that, the human impact or effect can not be sidelined, whether in robotics or artificial intelligent systems, on that’s; a skilled person must be responsible for forfeiting the codes and fulfilling the necessary technological commands that mapmakers systems function.
Dr. Agyemang lauded Dr. Bawumia’s digitalization policies emphasizing the need to implement this policy to ensure job creation and training students to compete with the advance world in the global stage.
This is where I share in the drive of Dr Mahamadu Bawumia’s announcement of training one million youth as a strategic national development agenda to drive the country’s digitalisation agenda. In his announcement, he reiterated the need to build the digital talent required for the fourth industrial revolution. In collaboration with the private sector, he mentioned ‘training at least 200,000 youth per year for the next five years. This, along with other policies, will create jobs for the youth, including school dropouts.
He further stated that this implies the educational curriculum will be realigned to focus on STEM, robotics, artificial intelligence, and vocational skills in order to address the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and facilitate job opportunities.
