Youth advised to pursue education

Story: Musah Yahaya Jafaru
(Youth advised to strive for quality education)
THE youth have been advised to seek quality education and acquire employable skills, since that was the only way they would become responsible citizens.
A member of the governing council of the Ghana Muslim Academy (GMA), Hajj Saeed Haroun Zagoun, who made the call, said the youth were likely to engaged in social vices if they did not have any formal education or employable skills.
Hajj Zagoun was speaking when the GMA donated food items worth hundreds of Ghana cedis to some orphans at Mamobi in Accra towards the observance of the Ramadan fast.
The items included rice, sugar and cooking oil. Two organisations - the Foundation for Human Rights and the Freedom and Humanitarian Assistance (IHH), of Turkey and WEFA of Germany funded the purchase of the food items.
Hajj Zagoun said the youth were the future leaders and stressed the need for parents to assist them to acquire both quality education.
That, he said, was the legacy they could leave behind for their children.
However, Hajj Zagoun said it was regrettable that some Muslim parents shirked their responsibility to send their children to school or assist them to acquire any employable skills.
Such youth, he said, ended up as miscreants who engaged in cyber fraud or ‘Sakawa’ and other crimes.
Hajj Zagoun reminded the orphans that they could assume important positions in future and also support others if they pursued both secular and Islamic education.
The President of the GMA, Nurudeen Alhassan, said the donation of the food items was an attempt to support the orphans to start and break the fast with ease.
He commended the IHH and WEFA for their support to the orphans, which he said would ease their feeding problems.