Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah
Chief Justice Kwesi Anin Yeboah has called on the youth to channel their energies and efforts into activities aimed at transforming and accelerating the development of the country.
He said the youth of Ghana hold the key to the development of the nation, and that “the kind of efforts they make towards the development of the country will determine the speed of her transformation”.
Justice Anin Yeboah made the call yesterday during the annual Chief Justice’s Mentoring Programme, which brought together students from Junior High and Senior High schools, who were inspired to pick up the study of law. It was dubbed,” I Pledge Myself to the Service of Ghana”.
He noted the developed world is witnessing massive strides because of the contributions of its youth and adults alike.
The programme
Touching on his annual mentorship programme, he explained that it “is designed to inspire young people to take up service to the nation, whether in the Judiciary or in other equally noble endeavours”.
This, he said, is aimed at building the nation to the status of those that Ghanaians will collectively admire.
“It is impossible to overstate the need to devote oneself to the service of our country. Often, it is thought that service to our motherland can only be delivered from some particular positions. The truth, however, is far from this. A nation’s greatness is collected as a sum of the individual efforts of its citizens, wherever and however they may apply themselves.
“A nation cannot be great if only its public servants are great. A nation is not truly great until all of its citizens are bound by a sense of duty to the collective good. So what I want to say to you, young people here and the millions out there who cannot be here today is that, your efforts are what will make this country, like those ones beyond the seas that I am sure you admire,” he said.
He added: “It took the efforts of people like you, some only a few years older than some of you here today, to produce those inventions, those ideas and those projects that have made some countries answer to the description of “developed”. The task I set for you, is, to also see yourself as capable of doing the same for Ghana”.
To this end, he urged the youth to embrace competence, integrity, patriotism and belief in whatever they do and added that “those are the values that will differentiate you from others and set you and our nation on the path to greatness”.
Ghana’s fate
Delivering a speech on behalf of the First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, chairperson of the board of directors of the Minerals Commission, urged the participants to remain committed to their dreams and aspire for excellence at all times.
“As leaders of tomorrow, Ghana fate in this uncertain world, rest squarely upon your shoulders along with the millions of your colleagues sitting in classrooms around the country,” she said.
Barbara Oteng Gyasi encouraged the youth not to be despondent by these challenges, but envision a future in which they take on and defeat these challenges.
She also urged the youth to be excited about the future when “you will have the opportunity to manage this country even better than any of us who have come before you”.
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