Manasseh Azure Writes: Mahama’s 24-Hour Economy: A Hollow Slogan

IF John Dramani Mahama is sworn into office as Ghana’s President on January 7, 2025, all the ministries, departments and agencies that close at 5p.m. will still close at that time. All the metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies across the country will close at 5p.m. Their eight-hour schedules won’t change. Nobody with his or her sanity intact will suggest that they run 24 hours because of a presidential policy. The public sector wage bill is already reported to be responsible for swallowing more than 60% of our annual national income. Not even the passport office, with its long queues and…