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Dr Freda Prempeh, a former Minister of State, says the nation requires more factories and industries to advance its industrialization for job creation, poverty reduction and progressive development.
She said: “If we have more of those factories built by Dr Kwame Nkrumah functioning now, it can absorb the chunk of these young people running for jobs and employment opportunities”. Dr Prempeh said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Duayaw-Nkwanta when commenting on the military enlistment stampede which happened at the Elwak Sport Stadium in Accra Wednesday November 12, 2025. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed 28 casualties, 12 critical cases, five in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and six deaths in the stampede.
Dr Prempeh, also a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tano North constituency in the Ahafo Region, noted that employable skills training and advancement in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) remained pre-requisite for job creation. She said the government ought to invest much and make TVET and employable skills training more attractive as “our thump print”, calling for more investment into agriculture, tourism and hospitality and industrialization.
Dr Prempeh said: “Now everything is TVET from clothing, building and even food to furniture”, and urged the employed young people to develop interest and pursue TVET courses to fetch jobs for themselves. The MP however, expressed her sympathies to the bereaved families of those applicants who lost their lives in the stampede and wished the injured speedy recovery.
