Kilo Alpha Aviation Holdings (KAAH), has urged the youth to acquire
the requisite knowledge in the aviation industry in order to exploit
the potentials in the sector as the nation’s oil and gas industry
grows.
He said the industry required high level of professional
competence and qualification hence the need for the youth to improve
themselves to be able to take full advantage of the numerous ancillary
job opportunities, which would be generated by the emerging industry.
Captain Amoah was speaking at the opening of a two-day free
orientation seminar organized by Kilo Alpha Aviation Holdings, an
Accra based aviation management consortium for youth in the three
Northern Regions in Tamale.
The forum dubbed: “Global Aviation Career Opportunities”, seeks
to serve as an “eye-opener” for the many unemployed youth on the need
to be strategically prepared to exploit the prospects in the sector.
It was also to enable participating youth to table their concerns
with regards to how job opportunities in the aviation industry could
be achieved.
The seminar which targeted Senior High School and Tertiary
graduates, aviation stakeholders, entrepreneurs as well as the media
was organized in three sessions.
Captain Amoah noted that statistics from the World Travel and
Tourism Council indicated that various work in the sector was expected
to employ about 84 million people globally by 2014 hence the need for
the youth to be up and doing.
“Sadly, awareness of the aviation industry, its economic
viability and enormous newsworthiness is minimal in many African
countries particularly in Ghana. The continent’s youth are hardest hit
in this regard as their choice of career remains limited to only few
saturated ‘know industries’, resulting in high unemployment”, he said.
Captan Amoah hinted that as part of efforts to help reduce
unemployment in the North, KAAH would organized a range of diploma
awarding courses in aviation including Airline Marketing, Customer
Service, Ground Operation, with which participants would be able to
take up many positions as 21st Century employer.
“We will also prepare such students to also register and sit for
the International Air Transport Association examination. All these
efforts are to help bridge the gap between the North and the Southern
Ghana “, he said.
He said the Northern Region has the potential of hosting an
international airport in the near future and called on the Ghana Civil
Aviation to fast-track efforts to upgrade the Tamale airport.
Latifa Salifu, a participant, expressed her desire to take a
course in customer service.
“I have always wanted to take up such a course to be a customer
service person but I could not find any in Tamale”, she said.
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