‘Entrepreneurship is relevant to socio-economic development’

The Executive Director of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), Mr Stephen Amponsah, has underscored the relevance of entrepreneurship in the nation’s socio-economic development. 

In a speech read on his behalf by the Controller of Apprenticeship, Mrs Juliana Nkrumah, at the 12th graduation ceremony of the Kumasi Vocational Training Institute at Suame last weekend, he advised the teeming youth to take advantage of the opportunities available while the government put in adequate measures to arrest the unemployment challenges in the country. 

He said entrepreneurship was critical, considering the fact that about 70 per cent of the over 7 million workforce in the country were self-employed. 

Apprenticeship 

The Institute Manager of the Kumasi Vocational Training Institute, Mr Richard Addo-Gyamfi, noted that in order to enhance the informal sector for national development, it was incumbent on vocational training institutes to develop the needed human resources through apprenticeship. 

Speaking on the theme: "Enhancing Informal Apprenticeship :The Role of Vocational Training Institutes in the 21st Century," he reiterated the institute’s mission to provide students with demand-driven employable skills through competence-based apprenticeship and master craftsmanship. 

In all, 218 students who undertook apprenticeship programmes in carpentry, masonry, catering, auto mechanic and basketry passed out successfully. 

Present at the ceremony were the Suamehene, Nana Yaw Daani II, the Minority Leader of Parliament , Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who is also the MP for Suame, and other dignitaries.