Weeks before the YEA incident, tens of thousands of young people gathered at the El-Wak stadium and other locations, to be screened for a few hundred recruitment slots into the once-revered Ghana Armed Forces. The conversation on the job fair can not be exhausted without the mention of the viral video footage from the event which exposed the complete and reckless disregard for social distancing, and other COVID-19 protocols. Besides these points, the job fair was needles and a wasteful exercise. Furthermore, the job fair served as a reminder to President Akufo Addo of the respect the state needs to accord its youth by immediately ceasing the deceit of its public relations gimmicks on job creation. It also exposed this government for what it truly is a more-talk-do-nothing government. If the job fair served any purpose, it would be bringing to fore the depressing nature of the unemployment situation in Ghana and also deriding the cooked data on job creation this government pushes out through its dishonest PR infrastructure. It is obvious as it is like this government to prefer form to substance, hence the needles outdoor gathering for the camera and nothing else. It is unbelievable that a youth-oriented state organization such as the YEA, under this government whose Vice President has been touted as the “digital king”, could not find a more innovative way of matching the credentials of job seekers to potential employers but rather had to resort to these risky and archaic ways of doing things. President Akufo-Addo has failed to take young people to the historic promised land of biblical Canaan and its effect is a growing despondency that is a ticking time bomb. The situation of young people amounts to a human being without a spirit and a captivating football match without the spectacle of fans in the stadium. Our nation and its youth are in despair, hopes have been bedridden, the morale of young people have collapsed and crushed, fatigue has strangled any iota of self-perseverance out of the resilient, depression bechanced on a commanding percentage of young people with their tongues held tightly in the mouth out of desperation, and the back of young people are succumbing and breaking due to a load of expectations that is becoming fleeting political rhetoric. It doesn’t matter whether you are the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you should better be running.”― Christopher McDougall It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.