Mahama’s 24 Hour Economy Sounds Fanciful - Moshake
A Former executive of the Tema East constituency branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Stephen Ashitey Adjei, is asking fundamental questions about the promise by former President John Mahama that his government, if voted into office, will run a 24 hour economy.
In a statement, he said the promise sounds like a piece of fanciful propaganda that really means nothing.
“The ring to it is nice, but then if you carefully think about it, it sounds like fanciful nonsense,” Mr. Ashitey Adjei, who is popularly called Moshake, wrote in a social media post.
Explaining, he said that the 24-hour economy that has been promised creates the impression that some economies or Ghana’s economy as it is now, halts in its operations.
“But this does not make sense because every economy operates for 24 hours; the difference is that while some economies are productive and expansive others are not; however, every economy operates for 24 hours,” Moshake wrote.
Moshake cited for instance that in Ghana, the economy is already running for 24 hours because businesses, public service delivery and even the street life in Ghana runs for 24 hours.
“In this country, don’t filling stations operate throughout the day and night with people running shifts? Don’t television and radio stations operate over night, non-stop, don’t hospitals operate throughout the night and don’t even shops operate on the streets throughout the night?” Moshake asked rhetorically.
He challenged former President Mahama to explain how come public transport cars operate throughout the night if Ghana’s economy is not already operating on a 24-hour cycle.
“You see, what we need at this moment as a country is not fanciful talk – we have many of our youth unemployed or under-employed, we still do not have a manufacturing base and the little that we produce we have a trade injustice situation where the Western markets decide the price at which they will buy our goods. These are the things that we need answers to, not some fanciful policy that sounds like a tale from the same imaginary world where pigs fly,” Moshake wrote.
Rather than the so called fanciful 24-hour economy, Moshake urged former president Mahama to “come up with something that all of us in the NDC can, not only support, but also sell to voters.”
According to him, “as things stand right now, if you ask me to go and explain the 24 hour economy to anybody, I will fumble because the idea is really very easy to poke holes into.
Even my regular “pito” joint at Ashaiman operates 24 hours a day, adults are told the truth, it is children who are told stories”. Moshake concluded.
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