“We are going to privatize infrastructure and by that we are going to create more jobs and if we must create more jobs our young people must be prepare for these jobs, so we are going to invest in vocational training so our young pepe can have the needed skills for the jobs,” Cummings noted. The ANC presidential candidate in the October’s polls asserted that the creation of jobs is aimed at reducing the high level of unemployment rate among young people who constitute 65 percent of the country’s population. Cummings added: “I view our young people as an asset. Cummings indicated that under an Alexander Cummings and Jeremiah Sulunteh led administration, the young people would be high on the agenda so as to get rid of some burning issues affecting young people. Cummings among other things indicated that he would send between 20-25% of the country’s national budget towards education in order to addressing the educational system of Liberia.

Source: GNN Liberia September 27, 2017 11:15 UTC