President John Dramani Mahama has introduced that his authorities will construct a brand new public technical college within the Western Area to broaden entry to technical and vocational training for younger folks.
In a speech on the Jubilee Home throughout a courtesy name by the Paramount Chief of the Essikado Conventional Space, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, and different members of the Western Regional Home of Chiefs, President Mahama stated the brand new college kinds a part of a broader plan to organize the area’s youth for rising job alternatives in mining, oil and gasoline, agribusiness, and digital industries.
He defined that the technical college shall be designed to fulfill the sensible wants of industries within the area and throughout the nation.
In accordance with him, this transfer is essential to Ghana’s long-term improvement targets, particularly because the Western Area continues to contribute considerably to the nationwide financial system by pure sources.
“The Western Area holds immense potential to guide Ghana into a brand new period of industrialization and job creation. However we should equip our younger folks with the best expertise. That’s the reason we’re constructing a brand new public technical college right here” the President intimated.
He added that this new establishment will work alongside different youth-focused applications, together with a region-wide employment initiative centered on agri-tech, tourism, inexperienced jobs, and digital entrepreneurship.
President Mahama revealed plans to improve the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital into a contemporary instructing hospital that may function a referral heart for the Western and Western North areas.
This, he stated, would enhance healthcare supply and supply coaching grounds for medical college students.
He assured the chiefs that these initiatives would assist bridge improvement gaps and make sure that the youth within the area have higher entry to training, coaching, and jobs.
The President urged the chiefs to help these efforts by selling peace, unity, and improvement of their communities.
