The Member of (MP) for Asokwa and Deputy Majority Leader, Patricia Appiagye, has asserted that the implementation of the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme by the government is one reason for the rising unemployment rate in the country.
According to her, implementing the programme has led to the country producing more graduates who are not taking advantage of the many opportunities the government creates for them.
Patricia Appiagye, who made these remarks in an interview on Oyerepa TV on Monday, August 12, 2024, pointed out that the government is implementing many interventions to give the youth skills they can make a livelihood out of, but these youth are only interested in white-collar jobs.
“It is true that unemployment is increasing. It is arising out of Free Senior High School. Because now we are educating more people and most of them are done with school but have no jobs. “But there are other interventions (which can help them), but they don’t want it.
