YOUTH URGED TO SHUN POWER-HUNGRY POLITICIANS

By Felix Engsalige Nyaaba

An Accra based legal practitioner, Mr. Francis Xavier Sosu, has called on the youth in the country to take up their lives seriously, especially education and shun selfish and power hungry politicians who would want to use them to perpetrate violence for their parochial interest during the December general elections.

Lawyer Francis Sosu who has  been  appointed by the government through the Ministry of Information as a Motivational Icon to  students and pupils  in the country Public Schools said, it was time the youth in the country avoided  being  used by power-hungery politicians and take up their own future seriously.

He made these observations during an interview with The Enquirer in his office in Accra after touring some public schools in the Northern, Upper East and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana.

According to the young lawyer, “the future development and the democracy the country is currently enjoying lies on the youth and I would urged every youth not to sacrifice their future for selfish leaders today.”

The regional tour, he said, was on the Theme: Reject Selfish and Power Hungry Politicians Who call for Violence in Election 2012.”

The Public Schools Orientation Tour is a new orientation initiative by the Ministry of Information under the ‘Better Ghana Agenda’ and it is aimed at motivating the young students to take up education seriously and unlock their talents to the benefit of their future and to the country.

Mr. Sosu  who further described himself as an Icon of Hope for the youth in the country for having survived a “trokosi”  and  become a lawyer from a very deprive family, said the youth in the country have  a lot  of good talents in them but only need good leaders  who would create the avenue for them.

“I want all the youth in this country  to know that, we are the future leaders of this great nation, we are the doctors, the lawyers, the politicians, the Journalist,  the teachers and other professionals and we have  only one Ghana and we cannot allow selfish politicians to lure us into violence during this year’s election,” he alluded.

He told The Enquirer that, education is the only tool that could be use by the youth of today to build their future and called on the youth to stand up against any politician who would use them to instigate violence for only to destroy their future live during the upcoming general elections.

 “I wish to state clearly that whereas people through talents and other gifts can unlock some possibilities in life, it takes education to unlock all kinds of impossibilities in Life.”

According to the motivational Icon, education can lift the poorest of the poor to become the richest of the rich and can also change their life from a common rural dweller to a complex urban giant.

He stated that education is the only way for the youth of today, because it provides a neutral platform where the poor can wine and dine with the rich and powerful regardless of a person’s background or family limitations and called on the youth to shun visionless politicians whose aim is only to use them for their parochial interest.

Recounting his own life to The Enquirer, Lawyer Sosu said, had it not been education he would have been the most popular destitute or street person in the country though he survived the “trokosi”, the slavery traditional culture practices that still exist in the country.

“My life bears witness to all the above assertions, through education, a low life like mine has got unfathomable opportunities to wine and dine with the great and mighty, and no child in this country can be an exception, I was homeless but education brought me out of my homelessness and gave me a home, hope and an enviable future,” he revealed.

Lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu told this reporter that, he has since spoken to over 100,000 youth mainly students in the Senior High Schools in the Brong Ahafo, Northern, and the Upper East Regions in the country and would be heading to the Upper West region and others by next week.

He said the orientation tour message has being built  around a very unique and educationally stimulating book titled “HOMELESS” written by him  and distributed to all schools he has since visited.

The book, he said  has since gained endorsement by the Ghana Education Services, the Ministry of Education and the  Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), to be a supplementary reader for all public schools, both  Junior High, Senior High, Vocational and Technical institutions and Colleges of Education in the country.

Mr. Sosu noted that despite all the odds he went through, he is now working with F-X Law & Associate, a Public Interest, Tax, Oil & Gas, Corporate and Commercial Law Firm in Accra.

He  said, he had survived in the midst of social miscreants; drug addicts and drug pushers, alcoholics, thieves and the likes, but his determination for a better future through education made him defied all odds and remained uncontaminated by the bad morals that surrounded him.

He therefore urged the youth never to use the situation they found themselves as an excuse and become redundant in society, saying, “everyone can make the best out of his worse situation if he or she really wants to, both success and failures are all choices, we fail because we choose to fail and we succeed because we choose to succeed.”

Caption: Some of the students listening attentively during one of his tour to the Upper East, INSET Lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu speaking to the Students.