Ghana Losing Its Strong Youth To Street-Sweeping Abroad

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is appalled that young Ghanaians are more interested in pursuing opportunities overseas than using their abilities to advance their country.

According to the Asantehene, Ghanaians, particularly the youth are more focused on finding low-paying jobs in developed nations than students from developed nations, who possess the same level of cognitive ability and focus on creating technologies that would change the world and make them millionaires overnight.

At the Delhi Private School (DPS) International graduation ceremony on June 21, 2025, with the topic “Championing the nation’s future,” Otumfuo Osei Tutu II energized the graduating class by emphasizing that the future is 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.”

As a result, Otumfuo pushed students to be bold, inventive, creative, and adventurous in fields like science, technology, and agriculture.

“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”.