Why Are Intelligent Ghanaian Youth Rushing to Sweep Streets Abroad? – Otumfuo

His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is dismayed that Ghana’s youth are preoccupied with seeking opportunities abroad, rather than utilising their skills to develop their homeland.

With the same level of cognitive ability, the Asantehene observes, students from developed countries set their minds on making inventions that take over the world and make them millionaires overnight while Ghanaians tend to be fixated on landing menial job opportunities in developed countries.

Speaking on the theme “Championing the nation’s future” at the 2025 Graduation ceremony of Delhi Private School (DPS) International in Tema on June 21, 2025, the Monarch, stirred up the graduating class, noting that the future lies in their hands and at home.

“Some of those graduating as you are today in the UK, India, China and the United States, will go on to create new technology products that will make them instant millionaires. Some will be designing products that will shake the world, invent drugs to treat today’s incurable diseases and even create products to take man onto planets beyond Earth.”

“They will all be building on the same foundations laid for you here, applying the same tools you have been exposed to. How do they do that in India China and Japan and Vietnam? And how come you, some with outstanding minds, are stuck in the rot, struggling for opportunities to go and sweep the streets of these countries?”

His Majesty further enlightened them on the abounding opportunities in Ghana.

“The answer lies in the mind. There is no future anywhere better than where you are. The future is HOME and, in your minds, to create. It is in your minds to create and innovate and in your hands to mould and shape the world you want.”

Otumfuo, therefore, challenged them to be creative, innovative, courageous and enterprising in sectors such as agriculture, science and technology.

“That is the future you want to champion. The future in which Ghanaian youth are changing the face of agriculture, bringing the miracles of science and technology to produce the food we need to feed the nation and to provide raw materials for industry. A future in which Ghanaian youth take centre stage in the race to utilize our natural resources to create wealth for themselves and the nation. A future in which Ghanaian youth are firmly in the driving seat of the big technological community that is shaping the world.

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