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Explore self-employment as an option - Ablakwa

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  • O.B.A. Y.A.A. 10 years ago

    FOOLISH BOY WHY DON'T YOU AND YOUR USELESS GOV PROVID THEM THE CAPITAL TO START

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    One day two boys were walking through the Grass when they saw some cow shit. One of the boys said, ''What is that?''
    ''They're smart pills,'' said the other boy. ''Eat them and they'll make you smarter to create your busines ...
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  • kabokabo 10 years ago

    walatu walasa! Ghana is going back to Cheampong era

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    ARE U SELF EMPLOYED?

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    HE IS SELLING SOGAKOPE FRIED GUINEA FOWL FROM SOGAKOPE AWARENESS DEFRAUDING ASSOCIATION [SADA]

  • LARYEAH 10 years ago

    I LIKE YOUR COMMENT. THIS ABLAKAW IS USELESS, INSTEAD FOR HIM TELL THEM HOW TO START, HE ONLY TELLS TO GO TO BUSINESS. HE SHOULD AS WELL TELL THEM TO BECOME MILLIONAIRES.

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

    Listen to that rabbit-toothed stealer, who has never paid tax in his lifetime.

    Did I hear him tell unemployed graduates to offer themselves employment when he is an example of how unemployeds can become rich overnight by j ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    NPP says they want entrepreneuralship and when you talk about it they pour insults. Kutu went to Swedru Business college and said Self Reliance . Makes sense does it not Businesses according to NPP is the way but they wait fo ...
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  • Kweku 10 years ago

    We may disagree with the minister for many reasons but we cannot rubbish the message he is reminding us about. The private sector is a drive behind most successful economies. Its a good thing he said for that obvious understa ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    private enterprise also mean building factorys like Coca-cola or manufacturing beer, build toyotas or chevys or trucks..you need lites on 24/7/365 to run big business..nobody is gonna invest in ghana except gold,oil/cocoa unt ...
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  • sgt Doe 10 years ago

    Then why id you become a politician after school and not form a company yourself? easier said than done!!!

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    SMEs are the backbone of all the major economies but they need support and the correct environment to thrive. The best thing the ndc can do is to resign so that capable people can take over

  • Kwame Koramoah 10 years ago

    Did this Ablakwa guy set up his own employment before he joined politics?

  • Aussie Ghana 10 years ago

    I really don't blame Ablakwa, but those who voted them into power. I don't know what he will be doing had he not been given a political appointment. Graduates you are on your own, so start doing something as the gov't has not ...
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  • Kpeblo 10 years ago

    It's a shame when a minister of state can give this stupid speech. Why not ask the government to creat jobs, kick the Chinese out so Ghanaians can find work. They can not use stones to be self employed, how is the government ...
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  • KOFI - USA 10 years ago

    IT SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA BUT WHY DID YOU NOT TAKE THE LEAD. BECOMING A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT IS NOT SELF EMPLOYMENT. WHERE DO THESE GRADUATES GET THE FUNDS TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESSES SINCE YOU AND YOUR NDC GOVT HAVE STOL ...
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  • Aggrey 10 years ago

    Mr Ablakwa I need 3 thousand Ghana new cedis to start my welding bussiness. Can you help?

  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    HOW CAN DOG CHAIN AND SHOE SHINE BOYS FIND A JOB IN THIS 21ST CENTURY TELL ME NOW!EVEN THOSE FROM THE UNIVERSITIES
    HAVE NO SKILLS THAT CAN LAND THEM ON A JOB.IN EUROPE,CHINA AND AMERICA FACTORY WORKERS HAVE TO USE COMPUTER.T ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    I saw a sign at a gas station. It said "help wanted." There was another sign below it that said "self service." So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Pretty smart from eating NPP shit eh

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    When ex-Prez. Kuffour said that Ghanaians esp. University graduates should consider venturing into business and explore the limitless opportunities out there, NDC told him that he'd insulted Ghanaians. Now Pastor Okudzeto Abl ...
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  • Pancho 10 years ago

    They don't have the money to start anything? Where did you Ablakwa get money to build all those petrol stations? sakawa money or woyome gargantuan money. A corrupt deputy minister stealing from all corners.

  • AMOH-MENSAH DICKSON 10 years ago

    The idea is good but government should support them

  • Kofi K 10 years ago

    Why are you asking graduates tread where you have not passed? Advice is given upon experience, tell them to do student politics, join kwesi praat defunct(for now) movement and political appointment would be waiting, after the ...
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  • Kofi K 10 years ago

    Why are you asking graduates tread where you have not passed? Advice is given upon experience, tell them to do student politics, join kwesi praat defunct(for now) movement and political appointment would be waiting, after the ...
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  • Ama 10 years ago

    Enyè wo a, wai.

  • MUMUNI MUSAH (PARAHINDO) UDS WA-CAMPU 10 years ago

    why all these attack on Hon Ablakwa? is he the first person to advise students to engaged themselves into entrepreneurship? is every graduate that can get employed in formal sector? u guys are just jealous of the younger min ...
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  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    DID HE GET A EMPLOYMENT FOR HIMSELF?

  • sgt Doe 10 years ago

    Because he now has 23 filling stations AFTER being in gov't employ for a few years!!!

  • Kamal 10 years ago

    I KNOW THIS IDIOTIC ABLAKWA IS A HYPOCRITE AND CORRUPT AS ANY POLITICIAN THAT HAS OCCUPIED AN OFFICE(oh except Rawlings, he was a saint ha) BUT MANUFACTURING FIGURES ONLY OBSCURE THE FACTS AND SOMEHOW LET HIM OFF THE HOOK.HOW ...
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  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    THAT IS NO EXCUSE FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PERFORM ITS PART.

  • kofi 10 years ago

    THIS SMALL BOY ABLAKWA SAID GHANA SHD PAY OUT 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS TO AFRICA AUTO LTD...HE EVEN MANIPULATED MARTIN AMIDU TO APPROVE OF FAKE JUDGEMENT TO CRIMINALS AND CRONIES OF NDC....SO WHERE DOES HE EXPECT THE YOUTH TO SOUR ...
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  • chamcham 10 years ago

    TALK IS CHEAP, MR. MINISTER. WHAT AVENUES AND INCENTIVES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THESE YOUNG GRADUATES TO "JUMP-START" THEIR BUSINESSES?

  • Oko Kokuvi Anidu 10 years ago

    How can this stupid Ablakwa advice self employment when he didn't do that from school. You see how stupid he is. I feel like killing him with my bare hands

  • Oko Kokuvi Anidu 10 years ago

    How can this stupid Ablakwa advice self employment when he didn't do that from school. You see how stupid he is. I feel like killing him with my bare hands

  • Sally said 10 years ago

    Did Ablakwa ever sent an application for a clerks job after graduating from legon? or did he ever tried to set up a bread selling business before joing ndc to insult his grandfather colleagues then?

  • ww3 10 years ago

    How many politicians own businesses in NDC - none

  • ww3 10 years ago

    Advise your rich govt suckers to create jobs not graduates who have no money but debts to pay

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Why don't you self employ urself?

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Talks by heart!

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    ABLAKWA SADA GUINEA FOWL BUSINESS.


    Prince"Mr Ablakwa what is the similarity between a woman and a SADA Fried Guinea fowl from Sogakope?
    A: By the time you've finished with the breast and thighs, all you
    have
    left
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  • Great 10 years ago

    Nicholas Nicodamus Nana Nsowah Nuamah. (what a name).

    Ablakwa, why do they go to school and paid all those tuition, if they have to employed themselve at the end?

  • Subtitude Teacher 10 years ago

    This NDC people don't know when to shut up.

  • Dr Robert Glah 10 years ago

    Our 2,255 KPoly graduates should be prepared in human skills and technological capacity building to enable them take the self employment option.

    If the gradutes are not good for themselves, they cannot be good for any empl ...
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  • M.m.m. martin 10 years ago

    When u are given an advice and instead giving thanks u insult, u kill your own blessings.

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    It is very difficult to accept such an advice even though it's good. And the reason is that Government has a primary duty to put all its citizen to work and not to pass the buck. The resources of this country, from the sun to ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    so that people can build factorys and home to employee people!

  • Owura Ntim 10 years ago

    To be self employed people need start up capital. What policies has the government put in place to facilitate self employment. Government can work in concert with banks to help self employment. Its action on the part of gover ...
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