I feel bad seeing my kids work abroad and Ghanaian graduates struggle - Kennedy Agyapong

Kennedy Agyapong, a member of parliament representing Assin Central Constituency, has bemoaned the country’s high young unemployment rate’s detrimental impacts.
The lawmaker said that he often gets depressed when he contrasts the living circumstances of Ghanaian graduates with those of graduates abroad. He is seeking to be the flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
On February 24, 2023, he claimed that despite the fact that all of his children who went to study overseas are now gainfully employed and leading comfortable lifestyles, he still feels bad about the living conditions of Ghanaian graduates who are unemployed and struggling in their own country.
“The most important thing is, how we are going to create jobs for the youth in this country, because I feel guilty that my children who are in America finish school and are gainfully employed. But here the youth finish university and has no job to do.
“Sometimes, for about six years then they’re still depending on their parents. I’m worried about those things because finishing school for about six years without work sometimes makes them give up on life,” he said.
He urged delegates of the NPP to vote for him in order to fulfil his dream of becoming president because he is prepared to create a large number of jobs for the youth.
“I have opened several companies as an individual businessman, I cannot employ all the graduates who have completed school. So, I have decided that I will come and change things if I become the president,” he added.
He made an argument for his desire to become president by saying that, in his capacity as an MP he generated countless opportunities from which people are profiting and that, should he be elected president, he would take drastic efforts to reduce poverty.