Do you agree that 8 out of every 10 Ghanaian youth are a bit lazy? Karen Kash Kane, a fashion entrepreneur, disclosed this over the weekend. According to her, the never-ending c
A Ghanaian fashion entrepreneur, Karen Kash Kane, argued that about 80 percent of Ghanaian youth are ‘a bit lazy’ however; she failed to prove statistically how she came to the conclusion. She made this public while speaking on Joy Prime, a TV station based in the capital. The programme discussed the rate of unemployment in Ghana and what needs to be done to tackle it.
During the discussion is said, when some Ghanaian youth contact her for job opportunities, she was hesitant because she was worried they did not have the needed skills and capacity to do the job.
She attributed the sad reality to the current education system of the country.
She explained, “Sometimes I feel like it’s the educational system, the upbringing, you know, like the mixture of everything. But technically I’ll say that, and this is my honest truth, I feel like 80 percent of the youth right now are a bit lazy,” she said.
“I work 6 days, I run my own business and this is our 12th year of doing this, and this is supposed to be my own business, however, I am more concerned at the end of the month about the salaries I have to pay but why am I working more than everybody else when everybody else has a day off,” She continued.
“This is my own business and people who are supposed to be doing the work for us to have the money to pay them are either complaining…you know there’s always an excuse,” the fashion entrepreneur added.
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Her views which have now gone viral have also received widespread backlash online. However, the same views are held by Hon Kennedy Agyepong and other entrepreneurs in Ghana