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| Mr. Reginald Laryea, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, GNA and the managing director of Media Majique |
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By: Addotey Michael
The
Leadership Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Development (LEED) has held its
first students’ leaders forum, 2014, at the Ghana International Trade Fair, La.
The forum brought together great entrepreneurs such as Mr. Reginald Laryea, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, GNA and the managing director of Media
Majique.
In his speech, he encouraged the youth not to focus on finance as the main form of drawback to start their own business.
In his speech, he encouraged the youth not to focus on finance as the main form of drawback to start their own business.
The two days event which started on
Friday 12th September to Saturday 13thSeptember 2014 was
organized with the theme “creating the next generation of leaders; The role of
the students’ leader.The forum mounted great speakers such as Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwah,
Deputy Minister for Education, Mr. Moro Awudu, the General manager of XYZ
radio, Hon. Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, Deputy Minister for Trade and industry, Mr.
George Andah, Chief Marketing Officer of MTN, Ghana, and some great business
Men in Ghana.
Speaking with the Executive Director
of the LEED forum, Ms. Rebecca Donkor, she said the event was organized to
train students’ leaders as LEED has people who have climbed the corporate and
political ladder to groom the students’ leaders with the required skills for
the future as well as give them the opportunity to do presentations on their
current challenges on campus in order to elicit policy formulation. “All
students’ leaders should join the events of LEED to be equipped with the leadership
skills needed in future”, she added.
Ms. Donkor outlined some of the
upcoming programs of the LEED forum;a two day entrepreneur event in which there
will be presentations on business proposal by students and aspiring young entrepreneurs;
and those who come out best will be financed to start their own business.
She addressed some of the
shortcomings in students’ leaderships in Ghana as financial management and
investment. This tends out to be weaknesses of students’ leaders. Students’ leaders
misuse funds given to them instead of investing and making wise use of them.
Another pitfall in students’ leadership is time management as they show no
consciousness for time, she added.
Some of the schools present during
the event were University of Ghana, Zenith College, Islamic University, KAAF,
Wisconsin University, All Nations University, Methodist University, Radford
University, Wa Poly, International Students Association of Ghana, School of
tourism and hotel management and many more.
She
finally urged all youths to change their attitudes and perceptions about
entrepreneurship and do more of action rather than talking as the youth talk
more than taking actions, hence try their very best to ‘’walk the talk’’ in
order to build a better Ghana.
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| a cross section of student listening to Mr. Reginal Laryea as he delivers his speech |
Speaking with Mr. Reginald Laryea,
the Chairman of the Board of Directors, GNA and the managing director of Media
Majique, he said most youths have lost confidence in starting their own
businesses due to the lack of capital and funding which is ruining
entrepreneurship in Ghana. Capital is a secondary thing as knowledge and skills
to manage businesses are the key resources needed to start one’s businesses, he
added.
He told B&LG that there are
people who are willing to finance businesses as far as they are lucrative and
have convincing proposals, hence, the youth should be bold to dream big and
start their own businesses. He urged the youth to make use of the internet as
it gives adequate information on entrepreneurship issues, business proposals
and life experiences of great business tycoon so as to learn from it.
He urged all young entrepreneurs to
try venture capital as it is easier to get funding and also starting a business
involve a huge risk as going for a loan may not be appropriate. The youth
should not let capital discourage them from starting their own business as it
has nothing to do with their entrepreneurial ability, he added.
The Head of Marketing/Operations of
Wealth Vision Financial services Ltd, Mr. John Desmond Nai told B&LG news that,
LEED forum helps unleash the youth talent in students’ leaderships and also
shapes the future leaders as most of the leaders in Ghana are not leaders the
country can be proud of.
He
urged the youth to be ready to start from somewhere by knowing yourself and
your aspirations before thinking of getting to the highest level as most great
people always start on a low note with a lot of sacrifices before getting to where they are now.
He advised the youth to be humble
and start from somewhere to make impact in the country. The youth should get up
to the battle and do something in the country, he added.
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