A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team, Daniel Agengre, has criticized the government for what he describes as hypocrisy and failed promises under its much-touted 24-hour economy policy.
Mr. Agengre was reacting to comments made by Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Abdul-Rashid Pelpuo, who claimed that the previous NPP administration recruited over 12,000 nurses, teachers, and junior doctors into the public sector after the 2024 elections without budgetary allocation to pay their salaries.
Speaking on the Daybreak Upper East Show on A1 Radio, Mr. Agengre said the government’s complaint about a lack of funds exposes contradictions in its 24-hour economy agenda, which promised to create multiple shifts per job to boost employment.
“The minister’s comment is demotivating and unfortunate. If the government is struggling to pay one worker per job, how were they going to sustain a 24-hour economy where one job was supposed to have three shifts? Now it’s not one job, three workers — it’s one job, one worker, and even that they can’t pay,” he said.
He added that the NDC’s 24-hour economy policy, promoted during the 2024 election campaign as a strategy to curb unemployment and drive productivity, has turned into an “economic nightmare.”
“You said you would keep Ghana working 24 hours, but now even the workers in one shift are crying for salaries. What happened to your so-called innovation?” he quizzed.
In response, Dr. Nicolas Zangena, a member of the NDC Communications Team, dismissed Mr. Agengre’s comments as “cheap propaganda.” He explained that the 24-hour economy is designed to stimulate production and expand job opportunities through private-public collaboration, not through unsustainable government payroll expansion.
Source: A1Radioonline.com | 101.1 MHz | Samuel Adagom | Bolgatanga
