About forty young people have stormed Parliament of Ghana to
demand an urgent implementation of the long-awaited National
Youth Policy.
According to them, “We could no longer bear delays by
successive governments in implementing the youth policy”.
The demonstrators had a difficulty accessing Parliament as
security personnel prevented them from entering the august
House.
However, they continued and some of them managed to put some
leaflets in the pigeonholes of some of the Members of
Parliament (MPs).
A leading member of the group, Prosper Hoetu said there was
no justification for the government to stall the
implementation of the youth policy under the guise of
reviewing it, having been adopted by the previous
government.
He added that if the government has any difficulties with
the document it should say so, instead of just quietly
holding onto it.
Mr Hoetu argued that the policy in its current state had
inputs from the youth and political party youth
representatives when the final document was being drafted.
He stressed that nothing prevents the government from
starting with the implementation and fine tuning it late if
need be.
The youth later chanted war sounds through the Osu Castle
road to show their displeasure with the MPs and government
for not addressing this concern.
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