加纳东部地区阿索利王国的统治者，十四世 · 托比 · 阿菲德阁下（Togbe Afede XIV）告诫应届毕业生，避免对金钱贪得无厌的欲望，努力工作，成为国家变革的推动者。

上周六（2023年1月21日），托比阁下在位于霍城附近加纳健康与联合科学大学（UHAS）的 Sokode-Lokoe 主校区，在该大学第七届集会上发表讲话。

托比阁下作为特别嘉宾，对莘莘学子讲述着成功和财富是通过努力工作、诚实和毅力实现的，通过欺诈手段获得的财富没有荣誉。

这位领袖表示，加纳目前面临的经济和发展挑战或看起来势不可挡，但这也为毕业生提供了创新的机会，并使得他们利用从所受的教育中解放了的思想，来应对这些挑战。

服务社区

托比阁下指出，如果大学学位对于满足社会的愿望没有帮助，那么大学学位就没有多大用处。

“因此，你必须专注于对人民重要的事，而不是用可疑的来源获得金钱、昂贵的汽车和大房子的愿望。” 托比阁下告诉毕业生，公民的贪婪无助于解决债务缠身的国家需求，而是为人民预示着一个黯淡的未来。

为扭转这一趋势，托比阁下敦促毕业生带头开展一场积极的运动，激励加纳人以身量衣，过上谦虚简朴的生活。

托比阁下对财富创造有更多见解，他说，现在是加纳人牺牲一点睡眠，投入更多时间，以极大的热情为国家服务的时候了。

“贫穷是在床上创造的，你不睡觉，就好像你在与死神竞争，并期望成功到来。” 托比阁下补充说。

足够的资源

托比阁下坚持认为，非洲有足够的自然资源为其人民创造财富，国家需要通过创新和适当的发展政策。

加纳教育部长Yaw Osei Adutwum 博士作为荣誉嘉宾，赞扬加纳健康与联合科学大学十年内达到国际大学的高标准。

Adutwum 博士保证，加纳政府将采取必要措施，尽快解决该大学基础设施赤字问题，并恳请毕业生在实践中保持谦虚低调，没有良好态度的毕业证书将毫无意义。

Adutwum 博士说，加纳政府将继续在教育方面进行大规模投资，没有教育，国家将无法向前发展。现在有 130 万儿童上高中，而 2017 年由于免费 SHS 政策，有80万。

加纳健康与联合科学大学副校长 Lydia Aziato 教授向毕业生表示祝贺，并建议他们以该机构卓越，诚信，创新以及服务和关怀的精神和价值观为指导。

“谦卑自己，向你们在实践中遇到的所有人学习：如你所知，提供医疗保健需要团队合作，所以，去成为一个强调团队的合作者。“ Aziato 教授补充道。

现场共有 826 个学位授予了联合科学学院、基础和生物医学科学学院、医学学院、护理和助产学学院，药学学院和 Fred N. Binka 公共卫生学院的毕业生。

Eschew Insatiable Lust for Money – Togbe Afede Tells Graduates

The Agbogbomefia of Asogli, Togbe Afede XIV has entreated graduates to eschew the insatiable lust for money and rather work hard to become agents of change for the country.

He was speaking at the 7th congregation of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) at the main campus at Sokode-Lokoe, near Ho, on Saturday (January 21, 2023).

Togbe Afede who was a special guest, said success and wealth were realised through hard work, honesty and perseverance, adding that riches derived through fraudulent means came with no honour.

The Agbogbomefia said the current economic and development challenges facing the country may look overwhelming but they also provided opportunities for graduates to be innovative and use their liberated minds from the education they acquired to address those challenges.

Service to the community

He pointed out that university degrees served little purpose if they did not help to meet the aspirations of the community.

“Therefore, you must focus on things that matter to the people and not the desire to attain money, expensive cars and massive houses with money cash from dubious sources,” he told the graduands.

Togbe Afede noted that greed among the citizenry was not helping to address the needs of country which was debt-ridden, but rather projecting a bleak future for the people.

To reverse that trend, he urged graduates to spearhead a vigorous campaign to inspire Ghanaians to cut their coats according to their sizes and embrace a life of modesty.

Shedding more light on wealth creation, Togbe Afede said it was time Ghanaians sacrificed a bit of their sleep and put more time in serving the nation with great zeal and enthusiasm.

“Poverty is created in bed, and you cannot sleep as if you are competing with the dead and expect success to come your way,” he added.

Enough resource

The Agbogbomefia maintained that Africa had enough natural resource to create wealth for its people, with innovation and appropriate development policies from the state.

The Minister of the Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the guest of honour, commended UHAS for attaining a high standard as a university in international circles within a decade.

He gave an assurance that the government would take the necessary steps to address the infrastructural deficits of UHAS sooner than later.

He entreated the graduands to be humble in their practice, saying a certificate without a good attitude by the holder would be meaningless.

He said the government would continue to invest massively in education, without which the country would not move forward.

Already, he said there were now 1.3 million children in senior high school, as against 800, 000 in 2017 as result of the Free SHS Policy.

The Vice Chancellor of UHAS, Professor Lydia Aziato congratulated the graduates and advised them to be guided by the institution’s ethos and values of excellence, integrity, innovation, and service and care.

“Humble yourselves and learn from all the people you meet in your practice; as you are aware, provision of healthcare requires teamwork, so, be an emphatic team player,” she added.

In all, 826 degrees were conferred on graduands from the Schools of Allied Sciences, Basic and Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmacy and Fred N. Binka School of Public Health.

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