In the course of the 57th Congregation of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Friday, November 24, 2023, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and chancellor of the university, passionately appealed to Ghanaian graduates not to seek opportunities abroad.

He expressed concern, stating that jobs available for graduates abroad are typically menial. Drawing from his own experience of living abroad, he emphasized that Ghanaian graduate students often find themselves limited to cleaning jobs despite their qualifications when they leave the country for perceived greener pastures.

“With all due respect, on this topic, I have lived abroad before, we worked in restaurants and all those things, even though we had gone to the university before we went there.

“So, the people here are much better than living in abroad and we have to be honest with ourselves. Because graduates and all that, people qualified are not given the work they want to do because they are taken to hospitals to clean and all of that," he said.

The Asantehene added that graduates should not travel abroad because in Ghana, they are given the needed reverence and self-esteem.

“Whiles you are here, we accord you with all the respect and dignity as a lecturer, as a professor and everything. So, please let us stay here and work,” he reiterated.