By Deborah Asantewaah SARFO
Valedictorian of Regent University College of Science and Technology (RUCST), David Nii Amarkine Laryea, has urged youth abroad to return and champion great projects that will drive growth and development for the country.
He emphasised that the continent will be developed by Africans, urging the youth to return to the country to help solve the problems in the country.
“As we move forward, I urge us to remember two simple truths. Africa will be developed by Africans. The Ghanian dream has been to leave the country but I say to you, leaving the country is not a bad idea but once you leave, please return and attempt an ambitious project that can solve a social problem for the betterment of Ghana and Africa at large,” he urged.
Mr. Laryea, who doubles as the Speaker of the Regent Ghana Students’ Parliament, made this clarion call to his fellow graduates while delivering his speech at the 18th graduation ceremony of the college.
It was held under the theme ‘Empowering Global Change Agents: Unlocking Relevant Skills for a Brighter Future’, with 216 students constituting 38 post-graduates and 178 undergraduates.
He further challenged them to strive to be agents of change and become the change they want to see in the country rather than looking up to others to create that change.
Similarly, the Founder and Chancellor of RUCST, Rev. Professor Kingsley Larbi, challenged the 2024 graduating class to make the vision of a new Ghana and a new Africa the perpetual flame that fires their imagination and keeps their dreams alive.
He also charged them to be individuals who see certificates as the means to a greater end, and positions and titles as a call to service, stressing that there are more territories to conquer.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, in his keynote address, said the ministry has launched a new programme called the Pre-Engineering Programme, aimed at providing secondary school graduates with non-science backgrounds the opportunity to study Engineering at the post-secondary level.
He added that this one-year in-depth course is designed to prepare students for admission to the Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree at the university.
He described the programme as a game-changer that will open doors for many non-science secondary school graduates and help to drive industrialisation in our beloved country.
For his part, the President of RUCST, Nana Yaw Boadi Appiah, noted that the graduates are a testament to the institution’s mission of nurturing leaders equipped with the skills, values and vision to make a difference everywhere.
