Chief
Executive of Rlg Communications, Roland Agambire, says his company took a bigger
risk to launch the Hope City project to make Ghana a competitive hub in the ICT
world.
According
to him, the “risk taking syndrome” will not stop, believing that it is risky
for businesses to refuse to take risks.
He
has therefore dared young Ghanaian graduates to be ready to take up risky
ventures that would move the country to the next level.
“Rlg
took the risk to train young people, cultivate the culture of entrepreneurship in
them and as we speak today, we took the risk to say that what is happening in the
West, South, East, it can happen in the Centre; Ghana is in the middle of the
world and this is the centre”, said Mr. Agambire.
The
young entrepreneur has been mentoring final students at the KNUST as part of
activities to climax the University’s 2nd Entrepreneurship Clinic.
Rlg
Communications recently launched the multibillion dollar Hope City project, which
when completed in 2016, will provide jobs to 50,000 people. It will house an
assembling plant where over one million ICT products will be assembled within a
day, as well as develop other applications from scratch.
Mr.
Agambire wants young graduates to have the confidence in designing technology
products that would make them relevant players in the Hope City project.
“When
you begin to develop those apps, that is where you have a space in Hope City. Hope
City is not built for me, it’s built for you; you have a lifestyle, you find yourself
being one of the smartest people on earth, creating amazing things”, he said.
Speaking
in an interview with Luv Fm, Mr. Agambire observed that entrepreneurs will be
the new chapter of development in every part of the world.
According
to him, the rate of unemployment is high because “we are refusing to take the
risk to create those jobs… so if we the young people do not begin to think that
way, that government is creating an enabling environment and out of that there
are opportunities for us to dwell in and create jobs, we’ll continue to mad
ourselves and think that it is a path to follow”.
He
has encouraged the youth to have a rediscovery in the minds to think big and
take risks to create new amazing things.
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by Kofi Adu Domfeh
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