Next NDC govt will run a 24-hour economy with incentives - John Mahama | The Big Stories

[@andyzutah5684]

I like it this way when NDC is able to set the pace for the conversation

[@marilynlucas5128]

NDC has several brilliant individual minds. My favorite is Adongo. A true genius. My only problem with NDC is they suck as a collective

[@andyzutah5684]

@@marilynlucas5128 some are greedy so they sabotage the collective interest.

[@360soccer.]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 how many conversations have ndc introduced🤣

[@360soccer.]

@@marilynlucas5128concert party🤣

[@theophilusampiah5163]

​@@marilynlucas5128 it's already in existence but minimal. What are the needed policies to implement in order to achieve this goal of Full Employment in the Economy to Enable this 24-hour economy? Its just a mere political slogan like the NPP 1D1F.

[@p.calculusgeee3324]

Well done Dr Amoah.

[@victoriaselwyn8235]

Health care, transportation, hotel work 24hrs so it is possible in every sector. This will get alot of people employed

[@360soccer.]

Who is going to pay these number of worker?…you can only operate 24 hours if you have peak…how can u operate a 24 hour work schedule when you have not budgeted for it…

[@fiiblanks1982]

The best economic benefit will come from the production sector if governance and compliance are well put in place. Ghana's biggest issue is our roads. Good roads A-B in a pace of time for your logistics is what drives a country to wealth.

[@edwardedwards9289]

This is a very welcoming idea and very feasible. Imagine Passport office, DVLA, etc etc working 24hrs in this country. That will make it very easy to obtain a passport, license, etc. The first thing to do is to improve on our security situation in the country.

[@marilynlucas5128]

I agree. Once power is guaranteed. 24 hour economy will make Ghana boom. I dislike countries that go to bed. One secret for the rapid development of Africa is to allow night businesses to flourish everywhere.

[@relax0180]

Who is going to renew or obtain a license at midnight?😀 24 hour work only will be of benefit in the factories, hospitals, police, security companies, etc, which most are already doing.

[@theophilusampiah5163]

​@@marilynlucas5128is there any law against night businesses? No except that the economy is not fully employed. The question is what are the needed policies to be implemented to reach full employment to enhance the 24-hour economy? Boosts and booms inTourism, arts and culture including entertainment, industrialization, low inflation and interests rates, etc, with effective transportation, communication and security sytems and operations are the main drivers of such policy.

[@marilynlucas5128]

@@theophilusampiah5163 OK. You're right. In the city of Johannesburg where I am currently, it's mandatory to shut down after 10 pm. I thought it was the same in Accra / Ghana

[@emmanuelboateng5294]

Here in the USA, a developed country, state agencies like passport offices have only one shift.Start at 8 and close at 4pm. This is ridiculous

[@nkansahbismark1518]

Which country has government institutions working 24hrs?

[@tonyduah9810]

Ask and ask again oo! Hmmm, Mahama will kill us ooo. 😂

[@edwardedwards9289]

So if it is possible to implement this, you want us to wait until another country starts it before we do that, right? What kind of mentality is this. No wonder Africans are not innovating anything. Have you heard of the word "pace-setting" before?

[@emmanuelboateng5294]

Only stupid people will follow such a proposal. He couldn't pay workers during his tenure. Some teachers were paid three months salary for a year worked. How is he going to cope with increase labour with no work to do. Some workers go to work late and leave early because they don't have anything to do.

[@zigma8470]

Creative Ways To Create Employment, Growth, Manufacturing, Markets... Private Sector Boost....!!

[@kayagyei6875]

The minister is right. In most government institutions outside Ghana seldom work 24 hours save the emergency services. Most of the services sector work 24 hours mostly and same in Ghana.

[@emmanuelyeboah1030]

Modern economies run in efficient infrastructures. Good roads and highways, transport and communication and efficient security networks to guarantee the safety of customers!

[@emmanuelyeboah1030]

small businesses is the bedrock of every budding economy. In GH implementation and monitoring is the problem. Cutting corners don’t work in modern economies. Without efficient revenue generation and proper budget regimes, a country has no economy!

[@zigibeat3689]

There's no where in the world where 24hour economy is physical apart from essential service like fire, health, security etc. In the private sector 24hour economy there is just demand push which is just 15% in the advance counties. All the over the world 24hour economy exist but they're all digital 24hour economy. For Mahama to just say such a thing just like that means he doesn't even understand what 24hour economy is and he sounded childish.

[@Offer10]

Very feasible. We need to psych ourselves and work towards it. The economy will expand

[@steveosei7751]

Encourage the private sector more than anything else! Mahama's proposal is bogus and won't work.

[@tmobiletemp9832]

24hrs with benefits for both the worker and their employers. Different pay rates for night shift Tax incentive for Employers

[@Gyenyame473]

Oh professor, professor , are you guys doing this country any good? Oh Ghana. I'm just a technical student I know it's possible bamm, say it's possible and stop this merry go round answering this simple question.

[@marilynlucas5128]

That's a professor for you!. Academics will always brood over an issue without arriving at a decisive conclusion in a timely manner. This is why they are only fit for academia and not industry. Introduce them into industry and everything will grind to a halt.

[@emmanuelankomah6343]

I wish I have your number I would called you to explain it well to me, since you get it right

[@randyowusu4617]

You are just a student, you dont know the realities on the ground.

[@marilynlucas5128]

A 24 hour economy is highly desirable. Ghanaians are poor but they want to go to bed at 8pm? A 24 hour economy will help solve unemployment and increase GDP. If this is NDC's plan they are thinking in the right direction. The only issue I have is that Mahama has already done two terms and I just don't understand why they voted him as flag bearer when there are other brilliant minds in the NDC.

[@dosarobert8309]

Mahama did only one term.. not two terms.

[@relax0180]

Are you saying the district assemblies are also going to work 24hours?😀 Whom are they going to serve during the night?😂😂 The staff are only going to sleep and be paid. Mahama is just being forced to come out with something that will not be done. Mark it. He definitely has no ideas. What happened to his hen coop project? 😂

[@alhassanfirrdous7292]

Not every sector please

[@relax0180]

@@alhassanfirrdous7292 That is already being done? Hospitals, police, security services, many factories, transportation, etc.

[@hayforddanso166]

I am surprised about this discussion though. The COST alone will be less two time that of free senior High school. Look salaries, labor demands, private sector pressure, fuel consumption, utilities impact etc cannot be accommodated by the country. There is no evidence to show that running 24hour economy improves the countries GDP.

[@kobe7915]

Hi Benjamin, I wonder where the NPP gets these sorts of Dr so and so from and whether they have brains. None of the two ministers on your show is able to answer or comment on any of your questions constructively. They are performance is abysmal.

[@bennbiney3690]

It's requires proper discipline n actions

[@tmobiletemp9832]

Stop signing Royalty based deals for the natural resources .Make good money to recruit and finance more employees.

[@emmanuelboateng5294]

NDC sold about three hundred state companies, what companies are going to run 24 hours shift system? .Some companies such as Valco, Aluworks GHAIP, Lever Brothers just to mention a few are running the same system. Under Mahama's tenure, he couldn't pay workers. Teachers were paid three months salary for a year worked. How is he going to get money to pay increased labour since fourty percent of national budget goes to the salaries of workers?

[@kofiboateng5509]

Is this even a govt policy that a supposed future NDC govt going to propose or implement? By the way, this is happening already through the NPP govt's "digitization/digitalization" agenda that the NDC is fighting against. People are doing business online 24/7 already especially the private industry so what is the fuss about a 24-hr run govt economy. So now John Mahama and NDC want public/civil servants (and farmers???) to work at night time? He should ask himself the productivity of govt workers even during the day time let alone night time. In any case, how is he going to attempt this socalled 24-hour govt run economy if he brings Dumsor with him? Are the workers going to use lanterns and bobo to work? Is he thinking about security and safety of people running around at night time? If things are good in the country, this is not something engineer by a govt. It comes naturally through growth and development spurred by the private sector and enabled by good govt policies. In any case, how many govt employees/contractors or sectors (federal/state/local govt) in the US or any developed country work or run 24/7 shift? The NDC and John Mahama need to come out with good policies that will spur growth and development. Because how do you run a 24-hour economy if you don't even have a productive 6-hour run economy? Sadly, only NDC people and those who are not well-informed will buy into this gimmick.

[@boakyefrank1007]

There is only one way for ken to become a president, and that's when npp goes opposition,if it happens as such there won't be any dwarf like Akufo addo and government appointees to manipulate delegates.. We are all voting for Mahama,to pave way for ken to become president in 2028

[@danielakan3799]

Don’t get disappointed though for Ken being the worse president ever. 😅

[@bennbiney3690]

It's very doable in my company every hour someone closes and someone starts work every hour so uts doable paaaaaaaaa

[@judegoodman6854]

The discussion should be about the morale fabric of the Ghanaian populace, seriously corrupt, that’s the issue we should be discussing! Corruption in our beloved country.

[@davidopong5622]

We like jokes....very funny country.

[@user-ug1sl3xy9r]

Don't doctors, nurses and engineers run 24hrs shift in Ghana? This is nothing innovative. Will he pay them? When teachers worked for 3 years under his watch and he paid them 3 months.

[@benedictodai630]

Civil servants will run 3 shifts, we there be 3 presidents , one for the morning, another for the afternoon and one for night shifts. Mahama is just behaving like kutu Acheampong who proposed union government but could not explain it.

[@dadoboye1536]

Talk is cheap. NDC was in power and what did they do? People should look at Mahama’s history and not his new promises. Anybody can propose to build new pyramids in Ghana but the implementation should be based on their CV and Mahama has a poor CV. What did he do with Saglemi? What did he do with the airbus? Saying you will run a 24-hour economy means nothing without details.

[@emmanuelyeboah1030]

Too much talk and little actions. Do little politicians. Only talks!

[@kobe7915]

They also feel too big in their shoes and too arrogant for the tax payer to be spending money on.

[@davidharrisoncudjoe6850]

Why do u guys still call Stephen amoah

[@sadesueto2078]

NDC make me laugh them always they have nothing to offer no alternative koraa the demand will depends

[@sakyieric2008]

I think the forcause is production sector because already sectors such as health and security sectors run 24hrs and sectors such as education not possible.So forcause sector is production.If the economy is good, things will be cheap, demand increases, business expand, more pple will be employ with increase productions which will eventually lead to 24hrs economy.So the economy have to be favourable first with very low interest rate which is not possible in Ghana with these our leaders and barbaric politics.

[@christabeladibuer1225]

The Malik Gentleman performed very poorly on this subject…..why major your point on government cutting down cost and minoring on private/government manufacturing and production that pay generate their own revenue to pay themselves. Bro do better next time.

[@alhassanfirrdous7292]

The NPP guy is fraudsters

[@jesuslovesme5207]

NDC ne gyimie saa, dumsor president John mahama never again God forbid, ignorance

[@mercybaffoe1025]

Sir please we Ghanaians knows corrupt mahama and ndc party this is nothing new mahama can not manage Ghana economy shameful we know them mahama said he will give Ghanaians chickens and pork he will never come back again

[@boakyefrank1007]

In your dreams,if Mahama is corrupt,then I don't know how to clarify Bawumia and his father Akufo addo....

[@mercybaffoe1025]

@@boakyefrank1007 yes enough is enough how many times wants mahama to rules Ghana and anytime we have ndc party they destroy the country you people have short memory's shameful Ghana belong to everyone not only for mahama

[@tonyanani8759]

Mahama is 1000 per cent better than Akufo addo and Bawumia.

[@jesuslovesme5207]

NDC ne gyimie saa atopa hene president John mahama never again God forbid, ignorance