Salam Mustapha’s love letter to Mahama

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Greetings to you my president, i trust you are well and in Ghana too? You have travelled far and wide across the globe, some call you the globetrotting president and others see you as a visiting president to ghana. Which ever the case is, you have covered miles across the globe. I sincerely believe that you have learnt a lot in the places you have been to, their socio-economic and cultural development. Again, you have had a long stint in our political dispensation hence you are very abreast with the situation of the youth of our country.
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Mr. President, i know that the propensity to see me as an opposition element is very rife. But as a young person living in this country am affected by the very untold hardships you have created for us and especially we young people. In the round up to the 2012 elections you made us believe that you were a youth yourself hence you were coming to work for us. Thankfully, the youth listened to you and voted for you accordingly. They fulfilled their part of the bargain but mr president, have you fulfilled yours? Have you tried in anyway significantly to help the myriads of our impoverished youth?
I can second guess your answer Mr. President, that you have set up the YES fund, appointed so many young people in your government and bla bla bla. But this response is very ludicrous as the current state of the youth is staggering and worrying. The youth are despondent under your failed leadership, no jobs and opportunities. It’s very obvious that your YES fund is going to be another ponzi scheme like GYEEDA. The intention might be good but judging from the lack of credibility of your government and the penchant for looting, 10m ghana cedis is paltry and will be dissipated in no time.
Mr. President, as you know the kufour regime left the NYEP in good shape employing over a hundred thousand youth. The economy was strong and could employ, the npp regime introduced MASLOC and venture capital fund to help grow young entrepreneurs. Your own brother, Ibrahim was guaranteed a loan from the then merchant bank to capitalise his business which today has made him a mogul. Programs like school feeding also opened up many opportunities for young people under the kufour regime. Today, all that the NPP bequeathed to you is in disarray and disfunctional, taking away those opportunities made available to the youth.
In your recently read bugdet for the fiscal year of 2015, it was made clear that there is freeze on employment. Furthermore, no specific job creation interventions were made to ameliorate the plight of the suffering youth. Mr. President, put a call through to own backyard of bole and hear the feeling of the young people there and am sure you will be heartbroken. As the economy get bad and worse, businesses are folding up and this means people are losing their jobs and livelihoods. The situation is bad, that much bad. If you had time to stay home and go round to interact with with your people, am sure you would have seen the glaring and gloomy picture but you are always out.
I believe that you see how other countries put premium on job creation for their youth, one would have thought that we would see same here in ghana but no. We are rather faced with a harsh reality of hopelessness and unbridled corruption. It is cruel for a government that prides itself of social democratic credentials to plunge our young people in such extreme suffering, people suffer to go through tertiary education only to end up sitting at home. It is unacceptable to make our youth hopeless and unproductive. The devil finds work for idle hands, am not sure for we want to breed cocaine dealers and other criminals for our society because we are failing to make them productive.
Mr. President, cancelling the allowances of teacher and nurse trainees was in bad faith. It is the last thing your government should have contemplated, it is a bad and callous action. You disappointed those students as it was critical to their academic career.
Mr. President, i trust you know the story of Algeria and Ben Ali in the famous arab spring when young despondent people took their destinies into their own hands? Our future here is not bright rather bleak and it is your responsibility to ensure that it is better. What legacy would you leave behind for us to remember you with? I hope to see a youth affirmative action to reduce the despondency and give hope to our young people, they need jobs, jobs jobs and jobs. Better opportunities to realise their dreams and the conducive atmosphere to succeed.
Thank you Mr. President.
Salam Mustapha
Deputy National Youth Organiser, NPP.
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