Dr. Kofi Amoah, a Ghanaian businessman, has advised the youth to give it their all at any given opportunity.
Dr. Amoah told students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) that Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and others were all university students when they decided to start something and, in the end, changed the world through their discoveries.
Dr. Kofi Amoah also urged the government to establish a favorable atmosphere for Ghanaian youth in order to ensure their development and advancement.
“The youth, on the other hand, should be able to adapt to their environment and make the best of it as well as themselves,” he said.
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He made this assertion when he engaged students of KNUST on their 70th anniversary on the theme: “70 Years of KNUST: Reflections and Projections by the Youth President” in the Ashanti Region via Zoom, Twitter, and Facebook all the way from the United States of America.
The event was organised by Frank Owusu Samuel Sesah (former KNUST SRC president) and Joseph Mireku (former SRC PRO) of the school.
He also encouraged the youth to make use of opportunities available and realise its importance in transforming their lives.
Dr. Amoah, advised the youth to take technology seriously and make the best out of it as it has become a game-changer for the global economy, and transforming the lives of people in every economy.
“There are so many things you can do with technology. This is the reason why there has to be a stable economy and well-built plan for society and our youth”, he said.
According to him, “quality is not something you can joke with. If you have the quantity, and you can add quality that’s fine, but if you cannot control both, always go with quality.”
He said KNUST as institution has produced a lot of successful people through its programmes and policies which the current generation must tap into to help in the transformation of the country as it marks its 70th anniversary.
He added that the current economic conditions in Ghana are not favourable for the youth who want to set up businesses, but rather favours foreign nationals.
Furthermore, he added that the idea behind the multi-million companies he owns now is about the hard work and dedication he put in when he was abroad which has made him successful.
“The youth should be able to adapt themselves to the environment and make the best out of it.”
Before he concluded, he urged the youth to apply the knowledge they acquired from the university in order to be innovative and try as much as possible to be the link to development.
