{"id":16106,"date":"2026-03-12T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=16106"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:19:29","slug":"promote-agriculture-to-tackle-youth-job-crisis-nunoo-mensah-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=16106","title":{"rendered":"Promote agriculture to tackle youth job crisis \u2013 Nunoo-Mensah to gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"217\">Former Chief of Defence Staff,\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Joseph Nunoo-Mensah<\/span><\/span>, has urged the government to prioritise job creation in the agriculture sector to help address the growing demand for employment among young people.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"448\">His comments follow a recent disclosure by the Minister for the Interior,\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka<\/span><\/span>, that more than 500,000 applications were received for just 5,000 recruitment slots across Ghana\u2019s security services.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"742\">Speaking to\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Citi News<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, Brigadier General (Rtd) Nunoo-Mensah said the situation highlights the limited employment opportunities available to young people. He called on leaders to guide the youth into productive ventures such as farming.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"901\">\u201cWhy not do something else apart from joining the immigration or the armed forces? Why not another job? Is that the only job that you can do?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"1087\">He stressed that leadership must be demonstrated through practical example, adding that public officials should actively participate in the initiatives they encourage others to pursue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1253\">\u201cWhen I retired from the military under the Hilla Limann government, I went to have a farm near Haatso, like an ordinary person. Leadership is by example,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1255\" data-end=\"1529\">\u201cAnd if you want to go into farming, you don\u2019t go and sit in your Land Cruiser and tell them to go and farm, you go and farm with them. I had a farm in Agbogba, the farm is still there, and I farm. I didn\u2019t sit in a Land Cruiser and say, \u2018Go and farm.\u2019 I do farm with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1719\">Brigadier General (Rtd) Nunoo-Mensah added that many young people apply to join the security services not necessarily out of preference but because they lack alternative job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1947\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cYoung people want jobs. They don\u2019t want to join the force; they want jobs. They want any job to do. But because you can\u2019t offer them anything, they join the police, they join immigration, they join the armed forces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief of Defence Staff,\u00a0Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has urged the government to prioritise job creation in the agriculture sector to help address the growing demand for employment among young people. His comments follow a recent disclosure by the Minister for the Interior,\u00a0Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, that more than 500,000 applications were received for just 5,000 recruitment slots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":16108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788,4514,41,3507,18],"tags":[5090,3046,5087,5088,5089],"class_list":["post-16106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-food","category-general-news","category-national","category-politics","tag-brigadier-general-rtd-nunoo-mensah","tag-farming","tag-former-chief-of-defence-staff","tag-joseph-nunoo-mensah","tag-mubarak-mohammed-muntaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16109,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions\/16109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}