President, twelve others honoured for leadership roles
The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has underscored the need for Ghana to properly harness and develop the abundant human and capital resources with which it is endowed for national development.
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That he said would ensure that the current generation was better positioned to take up the mantle of leadership in future.
Mr Amissah-Arthur made the call at an event to honour President John Dramani Mahama and 12 other statesmen for their leadership roles in national development.
The event, dubbed: “Lifetime in a Portrait Awards 2015”, was organised by Initiators of Change Foundation (ICF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to celebrate excellence in governance.
Awardees
Apart from President Mahama, six former Presidents were also honoured. They are John Agyekum Kufuor, John Evans Atta Mills, Jerry John Rawlings, Dr Hilla Liman, Edward Akufo-Addo and Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Also honoured was the Prime Minister of the Second Republic, Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia; a former President of South Africa, Mr Nelson Mandela; a former United Nations Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan; the first female Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Mrs Justice Joyce Bamford Addo; the first female Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, and the First Vice-President of the International Criminal Court, Mrs Justice Akua Kuenyehia.
Opportunities
Mr Amissah-Arthur encouraged the youth of Ghana to take advantage of the numerous opportunities available in the country to develop their potential and also make education their priority.
He added that through ingenuity and the application of the entrepreneurial spirit, the youth could take charge of their environment.
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Way forward
For her part, Mrs Justice Kuenyehia called for an educational system that would help young people to develop their talents and skills fully.
Technical and vocational education, she said, was the way to go in order to harness the hidden potential in young people.
She said the youth must reorient their mindset that vocational and technical education was the preserve of low achievers.