THE Chief Executive of KAMA Group of Companies, Dr Michael Agyekum Addo, has challenged the youth to adequately develop and nurture skills in entrepreneurship.
He said that would enable them to acquire expertise in establishing private firms capable of contributing to sustainable socio-economic development.
Dr Agyekum Addo was addressing the Ash-town sector of the Kumasi South Central Ghana Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church as part of their camp meeting at Kumawu.
About 1,000 youth from the Ash-town sector took advantage of the Christmas festivities to converge on the Tweneboa Kodua Senior High School compound where they engaged in productive ventures to build their capacity.
The 10-day camp meeting on the theme: “Dare to lead”, also sought to rekindle the youth spiritually to enable them to lead honest and God-fearing lifestyles.
Dr Agyekum Addo stressed that unless the youth developed their minds holistically and acquired imaginative minds that would make it possible for them to establish their own firms, they would remain unemployed no matter their level of education at the formal sector.
He prophesised that looking at the accelerated development and expansion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) programmes and their impact on world economy, there would be massive unemployment at all sectors of the economy globally by the next 10 years.
Dr Agyekum Addo said during such periods, only people with imaginative minds stood the chance of earning income that would be sustainable enough.
Speaking on the topic: “The secret ingredient for success,” Dr Agyekum Addo said being successful in life did not only depend on acquiring entrepreneurship skills, but also rested on developing positive attitude in life.
He stressed that investing in lucrative ventures without acquiring positive attitude would be a wasteful venture, adding that positive attitude and skills development played vital roles in helping individuals nurture their potentials and fully develop them in order to make an impact on society.
Dr Agyekum Addo also urged the youth to be time conscious by ensuring that they worked within the time frame at all programmes they initiated.
“If you want to be successful and make it in life, you should have much value for time,” he stressed.
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