The BRAIN DRAIN thing again

The Deputy Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment, Dr Charles Brimpong-Yeboah has, therefore, called for a second look to be taken of the US Visa Lottery.Dr Brimpong-Yeboah made the call on Wednesday in a paper on "Addressing the Brain Drain Phenomenon - Harnessing the Potential for National Development" at a symposium at the 57th Annual New Year School, underway at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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COMMENT.
For a lot of politicians crying alligator tears about people leaving the country, there is a subliminal class issue they often don't realize. A lot of them have first degree relatives (wives and chicks, husbands, children, brothers and sisters) living outside the country and they see nothing wrong with that. They actually take pride in it.

Richard Anane claimed that the money he used to support his pickin na bodo et Alexandra came from friends and relatives in the USA. Nana Konadu and JJR claim that friends are paying for the education of their children abroad.

When they publish obituaries in the newspapers, they take pains to include (in brackets) the location of relatives and "chief mourners" in London, USA, Holland, etc.

What these politicians resent is a guy from Agona Brofoyedur, Agotime Kpetoe or Bodomase who struggles through the system and after hitting wall after wall with his BA or BSc makes a break for it and becomes successful in the USA.

In their opinion, such graduates should have returned to their villages to teach JSS and promote the health and education of "stakeholders" if they couldn't find good jobs with PWC after graduation, rather than run to the USA or UK. As for living and working abroad, it should be reserved for the children and relatives of the Kuffuors, Rawlingses, Abodapis, Ananes, and Dr Charles Brimpong-Yeboah.