{"id":445065,"date":"2017-12-08T18:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/unemployment-lures-youth-into-doing-devious-things-kufuor\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T18:46:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:46:43","slug":"unemployment-lures-youth-into-doing-devious-things-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/unemployment-lures-youth-into-doing-devious-things-kufuor\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment lures youth into doing devious things \u2013 Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  8 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/29160317.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kufuor Jospong\" title=\"Kufuor Jospong\" width=\"295\" height=\"269\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former President Kufuor said that unemployment has a dangerous repercussion on the country<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512758803_485_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has underscored the need for government to tackle unemployment saying, failure to do so has a dangerous repercussion on the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2017 Thanksgiving Service of the Jospong Group of Companies, Friday, Kufuor emphasized that the lack of employment compels the youth to explore other means possible in order to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have so many young people all over the place highly educated without jobs and they say that the devil finds job for the idle hands. When there are young educated people and you do not give them jobs to do, then what you are doing to them is to lead them to the devil to use. And that is a curse to the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments should be there to solve problems. This is why the current government is themed \u2018Creating jobs through agriculture\u2019. I do not know anywhere on earth where poverty has been used to overcome poverty. You need to create the wealth to be able to help the not-so-privileged. You need to be able to have the wealth for equality of opportunity, give education to the people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The former president while refuting claims that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a party which believes in the capitalist ideology, said his reign saw more social intervention programs because the party believes in employing practical steps to resolve challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn truth, we did what we did as a government not so much for capitalism but for overcoming poverty, disease, ignorance and insanitary conditions in our country. Just this morning, an FM station called and asked me, \u2018your party is perceived as a capitalist party but during your tenure of office, we saw that you did so many social interventions for the not-so-privileged\u2019. I had to explain to him that the party I led, which is in power today, is not a capitalist party. We do not subscribe to ideologies. Ours is open-mindedness, pragmatism,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Jospong Group held the Thanksgiving Service to appreciate the goodness of the Lord towards the entities under the group in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 43 updated by: 43 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 8 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-08 Former President Kufuor said that unemployment has a dangerous repercussion on the country Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has underscored the need for government to tackle unemployment saying, failure to do so has a dangerous repercussion on the country. 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