The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has shared his difficult past with the youth of the country to inspire them that "nothing is impossible." Addressing the youth of Ghana in a special televised event from the Borteyman Sports Complex in Accra on November 3, 2024, Dr Bawumia recalled his humble beginnings in Tamale at Sakasaka Primary and Tamale Secondary School, as well as his struggles on the street as a taxi driver to support his education while studying at universities in the UK and Canada. "I attended Sakasaka Primary School in Tamale, Tamale Secondary School, Buckingham University in the UK for my first degree, Oxford University for my master's, and Simon Fraser University in Canada for my PhD," Dr.
Bawumia said before adding that he understands what it is for young people to struggle because he has been there before. "I know what it is to be unemployed.
I have been a farmer, a taxi driver, a cleaner, a teacher, a technocrat, a banker, a running mate, a vice president, a father, and a husband," he added.
The Vice President said that as a student back in Tamale, he had to work on the farm during holidays to get some money, and as a student abroad, in both the UK and Canada, he was a taxi driver and a cleaner because he had to do that to be able to support himself.