The Board Chairman for Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) Alhaji Hudu Yahaya has urged students not only to be interested in the certificate they will acquire from various educational institutions but rather focus on the positive impact the certificate will have in the society.
Alhaji Hudu Yahaya said the practice where students focus on only acquiring certificate is dangerous and urged students to be conscious of what the society expects from them in their quest for knowledge.
He said education should not be misconstrued to mean that an educator person should not engage in farming or carpentering job.
The GRIDCO board chairman said the kind of education society gives to the citizenry is very important. Alhaji Hudu Yahaya stated this when he delivered a lecture dubbed Patriotism lecture on the topic; Towards Youth Economic Empowerment: Converging the Politics of Higher education, human resource development and industry, the role of youth leadership in Tamale.
The patriotism lecture organized by the National Youth Authority was on the theme; ’’Promoting Social Values,Nationalism and Integrity through Youth leadership and mentorship’’.
Alhaji Hudu who is also the first vice chairman of the governing National Demotic Congress party and legal practitioner said education should include every part of human body.
What kind of education does society give out to the youth is very important, is it progressive, educative or is reactionary education? He asked.
’’Education should make use of the heart, mind and hands which means that when one go through school and come out one should not farm, does it mean one should not be a carpenter or look down on the carpenter, is not what education means; our colonial masters gave the drama type of education that is the recitation of the Latin words at the end of the day how does it help the individual to change the society, to change the infrastructure, to increase production and to increase the health of the people’’ Hudu explained.
The Gridco board chairman expressed concerns about Ghanaians attitudes towards farm produce in Ghana and made in Ghana goods and warns that if Ghanaians does change their attitudes towards made in Ghana goods it will adversely affect our economy and boost other countries economy.
The economic study tells us that the more we import is more than how much we export, the weaker the currency. Recounting his experience as a former trade minister during Rawlings regime, he attended Uruguay round of tours where the world members meet to discuss agreements as regards to how they will trade among themselves for the next few years and that was the first time they were bringing in agriculture produces to be part of it and be bounded by the rules of that meeting.
At that meeting, he recall that it took famers from Korea to come to where the meeting was taking place, with machines to demonstrate because, they did not want their market to be open up to cheap imports. Even though one will not say is hundred percent right, it demonstrated how much people have tried to live by what they grow, unlike some Ghanaians who want perfume rice from Thailand, meanwhile they don’t even know the road to Thailand and we are going to import it with dollars.
Researchers have told us that fresh food from the farms are more nutritious than the preserved food imported from Europe which spend months before reaching Ghana.
Alhaji Hudu Yahaya also advised students to choice courses that are relevant to the job market but not easy once which cannot earn them good jobs.
According to him, entrepreneurship is to enable us undertake ventures by ourselves, is not everybody who should be carrying certificates knocking at every offices looking for a job.
He called on Ghana education service to look into the curriculum and courses that student’s choice. The president, John Dramani Mahama during his last sectional address did also mention that, it is not always that the work is not existing but sometimes how students choice their course. In other words, if we are going to pick courses let us not just look for what is easy but rather courses at our ability, recourses available and what the market needs, he advised.
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