Youth issues 21-day ultimatum to Fix Unemployment In Denkyembour and Kwabibriem

Pressure has been mounted on the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to fix the rate of the youth unemployment situation in the various communities in Denkyembour and Kwabibriem constituencies of the Eastern Region.

Consequently, the youths in the two constituencies issued a 21 days ultimatum to President Akufo-Addo to make available jobs to the teeming youths or face their wrath.

Led by a group calling itself Concerned Youth of Kwaebibrem and Denkyembour, the current rate of youth unemployment in these areas is high to the extent that the impact was adversely having a negative effect on the development of the youth in the two districts.

They lamented that research made by them shows that about 70 per cent of the youth in the two constituencies who have completed Senior High School, Tertiary institutions and colleges are unemployed and it's becoming alarming and chaotic.

"Life is unbearable for us due to the rate of unemployment, high cost of living, deteriorating economic prospect, empty promises made by the New Patriotic Party ( NPP) government, fast falling of the and bad roads, among other things and due to unemployment rate in these two constituencies, it has led to robbery activities and hatred among themselves in these communities," the group stressed.

The group urged the government to fix Great consolidated Diamond company limited (GCD) to help reduce the high unemployment rate in these two constituencies respectful districts. 

The group noted that if the government is able to do this, the company will be able to employ about two million workers.

  Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu