Editor,

Please allow me space in your respectable medium to express my views on the role of the youth in the Gambia. As a youth, I feel oblige to do so.

But before I proceed, let me urge you to outline some of the main problems facing the youth even before you go deep into this article.

Vast majority of the youths are unemployed. This has caused so much inconvenience.  It has become so worrying that if nothing urgent is done about it, our future as the nation future leaders may be shattered. There are few job opportunities whiles a lot of youth are out of employment.  The few jobs are being competed for by the many youth out of job.
 
To cap it all, the trend at which youth from our sister Ecowas countries are pearing in to share these few jobs is deplorable.  These youth find their way to the Gambia for many reasons and paramount amongst them is the peace and tranquility. Nevertheless, they still share the few jobs at hand.

Therefore, there is the need for the Government and the private sector to help promote the living conditions of the youths.

We the youths also fail to play our role. Most of us pick and choose jobs without the qualification. This is rampant in our society, now a days. It can cause our movement or development difficult.

I think something needs to be done to put a stop to this atitude. We have to be educated. As we all know, education is very important in our lives. As the saying goes: If you think that education is expensive, just try ignorance.

So, the challenge to us all is to prepare ourselves with necessary skills and academic knowledge.  Not only must we all be qualified academically, we need to prepare for hard work.

No nation can achieve greatness if her citizens are lazy.

We must be ready to work really hard, and be prepared to improve on our effords always.

Lamin Marong

Vice president’s office