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The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Mr Ras Mubarak, said on Tuesday that the more young people remained unemployed the higher the risk of they engaging in criminal activities. He told the GNA in an interview that the youth were supposed to fill the spaces of older people who were retiring in order to reduce the unemployment plight engulfing the country. He said the number of people graduating every year from institutions outweighed the number of people retiring which made unemployment a major setback for the country�s development. Mr Mubarak therefore urged institutions to advertise jobs when there were vacancies and called for encouragement of advocating apprenticeship roles to serve as a tool for the youth to become entrepreneurs so that they could also employ other people. He told GNA that the NYA would in February make a disclosure on the recommendations, implementations and actions plans of the National Youth Policy. Mr Mubarak said the policy, which would help NYA to monitor all the youth in the country through their data base registration, would also help facilitate young people for development. �Through this action plans, Ministries, Agencies and other stakeholders would come on board to give equal grounds to every youth of the country�, he said. He said NYA was engaging private sectors and donor agencies in the training of young people that would equip the youth. He advised the youth to rekindle their spirits of volunteerism in their various communities to help build Ghana.