Accra, Dec. 1, – Mr Emmanuel
Adu-Sarkodee, the Group CEO of CDH Financial Holdings Limited, has said Ghana
needs people with integrity to build a solid future for the nation.
He said the country needs
graduates with high moral and ethical standards to lead the process of
reconstruction that is needed to direct the course of the development of the
country.
Mr Adu-Sarkodee made the remarks
as the special guest speaker at the November 2017 Congregation ceremony of the
College of Health Science and the College of Applied and Basic Sciences of the
University of Ghana, Legon.
He addressed over one thousand
students who had successfully completed various programmes including medicine,
pharmacy, nursing, mathematics, agricultural science, actuarial science among
others.
The business leader and
acknowledged entrepreneur congratulated the graduands and charged them to go
out into the world and make an impact.
“We need people who are guided by
a sense of what is moral and what is immoral; people who will refuse to
compromise their principles and choose to build their integrity account.
…The nation has had, and still
has people with enough intellectual capacity to move her forward; what we have
lacked and continue to lack is the character and integrity that should match
this intellectual capacity to develop this nation.”
Mr Adu-Sarkodee said honesty,
pure virtues and good character are higher than intellectualism, and character
is best developed through strict adherence to the high moral standards they set
for themselves.
Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu,
the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, tasked the graduates to be
ambassadors of the University and be agents of change.
“As you start life, you will soon
realise that obsession with money does not bring happiness. Wise and sound
decisions that you make in the course of life will bring the happiness you
desire,” Professor Oduro Owusu said.
Professor Akua Kuenyehia, a
member on the University Council, represented Kofi Annan, the Chancellor of the
University of Ghana.
GNA
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Graduands
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