Dr. Amin Anta the former Finance Minister shows the NDC how to do the 24 Hour Economy.

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Mohammed Amin Anta, the uh former finance minister, has put something on social media and I'll read it. He says, "The 24-hour economy remains a slogan. I have observed a pattern where government is forcing public agencies to operate 24 hours without increasing staff. A public sector approach to this policy is fundamentally flawed. If anyone was expecting that the government will create jobs through the public sector approach, you must be reviewing your expectations because the government cannot fund it. The wage bill is 30% of the budget, 33 and 1/2% in 2025, actually. Doubling the wage bill will bankrupt the economy. Even the most reckless government cannot do this. The policy, if it will survive, should be private sector led. Yet, the government has failed to provide the incentive package promised in the 2026 budget to the private sector, almost half year of the budget implementation. The 24-hour economy secretariat is in coma as government has not been been releasing the funds from their 110 million allocated to it this year. The policy is dead on arrival. It is a scam. What the government has to do in the public sector is to adopt what the previous NPP government was doing under the NPP's digitalization agenda led by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the government digitized the following public services.

[00:01:21]One, digitalization of passport office and made passport applications online without the need for middlemen or for the payment of bribes to obtain a passport. Two, digitalization of ports, made it paperless and more efficient with a tremendously improved turnaround time. Three, digitalization of the driver licensing and vehicle registration-related services which ensured that people no longer wait for several months to receive their licenses. Four, digitalization of the motor insurance database to curb the menace of vehicles with fake motor insurance tickets and ensure that the public can also self-check the authenticity of their insurance policy by dialing a USSD code.

[00:02:08]Five, digitalization of payments for public services, the ghana.gov platform which made it easy to access government services. Six, digitalization of pharmacies, the digital e-pharmacy platform which offers the opportunity to everyone through a mobile phone to upload his health of health prescriptions and find out which pharmacies near them have the medicine.

[00:02:31]Six, integration of government database, the national ID card database with other databases such as passport, SSNIT, NHIS, Ghana Revenue Authority, bank accounts, DVLA, SIM cards, mobile money accounts, Controller and Accountant General's Department, Registrar General's Department, Births and Deaths Registry, and the police and the Police CID Ghana to create a centralized integrated database. A Bawumia government will continue with the digitalization of public institutions and services to ensure the public's ease of access to government services at all times, improve efficiency and productivity, and create the enabling environment for the private sector. Viewers, you see the difference in the in the skill set. It's very clear. You have a Dr. Bawumia who is who is supremely competent and qualified and very very astute, very very patriotic, and loves Ghana to the bone.

[00:03:26]And then you see people who are talking about how can somebody come and tell you that you the job that the public sector is offering, that we are already crying since the Rawlings' time. IMF and World Bank have been telling us reduce the public sector wage, we do we have done retrenchment exercise, we have sacked people, we have done all of that to to bring the public wage under control. And then somebody is campaigning in 2020 for he tells you that that public wage I'm going to triple it. And we all believe it. I believed it. I I have to confess.

[00:03:53]I'm really sorry. I mean, I'm sorry. I believed it. Please, don't don't call me names. I beg you. I believed it. Because I I believe people who are speaking to the nation. I I I mean, if we can't believe that, what can we believe?

[00:04:06]If we can't believe a presidential candidate takes a podium and speaks to the nation, if we can't believe that, if we should begin to doubt that, our democracy is going nowhere. And the NDC has really hurt our democracy because next time I put a platform there and I'm speaking, they will say that, "Oh, politicians, that's how they are." Oh, I keep saying that Akufo-Addo is the one who gave the politicians credibility. After decades of the lack of credibility of politicians telling us something and doing the other thing. Akufo-Addo has promised free SHS for a long time.

[00:04:36]Everyone thought it's not possible and he made it possible. Since then, politicians are promising again. And it helps all of us. That's what they helped all of us when the politician is credible. And then comes a new group of people and they say that, "I'm going to do 133." How are you going to do 133?

[00:04:51]They take all of us for Me, they fooled me. I'm so sorry. I I feel so sad that I was fooled. Me, I think I've read plenty books. I think I've studied at Aggrey Memorial Primary School and I went to PRESEC.

[00:05:01]They made me small. They made me know that I'm a fool because I believed it. I said, "Hey, Charlie, this thing is going to be interesting, eh?" So, everybody is going to get to I didn't think about it.

[00:05:10]And most of us believed it. And now here we are. They are not even talking about it. If you like, viewers, and I got some people to get me an algorithm. I'm going to run every speech that NDC people There's no 24-hour economy in it. When our finance minister is speaking, it's not there. President is speaking, it's not there. Vice president with her visiting visiting, when she goes to visit visit, nothing about 24-hour economy comes. Recently, I heard the The only person who talked about it is uh Edudzi Tamakloe, National Petroleum Authority. He said that he's doing 26 petrol stations or so and that it it will sort of support the 24-hour economy, something like that. That's That's the only time I heard then he's not a minister, he's not a deputy minister. He's the head of an agency.

[00:05:49]So, at the center of government, the real government decision-makers, vice president is visiting visiting, she doesn't say anything about it. Goes to visit, he doesn't say anything about waste our petrol to visit ministers, he won't say anything about it. The minister for roads, he hasn't said anything about it. Minister for which other minister is there? Defense, zero.

[00:06:06]He hasn't said that one, we don't have a substantive one here, we are still waiting. Deputy minister for defense, nothing hasn't said anything about it.

[00:06:12]Minister for interior, nothing.

[00:06:15]They they've stopped talking about it, but we can't do that. You see, this is not just about NDC, it's about Ghana, and it's about the future of our democracy, and it's about the youth having faith in elective government, that government should be arranged as a result of electing people into the government. We don't want the situation where the youth are beginning to think that "Tali this thing doesn't work." If they start thinking like that, we are all in trouble. I'm in trouble, you are in trouble, your mother in the village is in trouble, my father in the village is in trouble, everybody is in trouble.

[00:06:45]We need to protect this image. And so, in the next campaign, Ghanaians are going to be watching. I just saw a Facebook post that said that the NDC branch election people are picking forms is not as enthusiastic as 2022. The 2022 one was far more enthusiastic because they're not picking the forms because they think they're going to lose power or they think that they've have disappointed Ghanaians so much that they don't know what campaign they are taking. Only 4 years.

[00:07:10]Not 8 years, oh, 1 2 3 4.

[00:07:14]Huge disappointment because of the swift fire economy, they will not be able to do even one government agency that 133.

[00:07:21]What are they going to tell the people?

[00:07:23]So, the young people are running away from branch forms, they don't want it.

[00:07:25]Nobody wants it in their house. Already, they started beating them. In fact, they started saying "Look at your who said it?" That when you are there, they come and tell you you did separate separate, what did you get? He's the one who is saying it. So, it is true, it's going on. Everybody who did separate separate is hiding except a few like Mary Wussy and and them who have big big posts. Mary Wussy is freezing his big posts. They are they are the people talking and and the lady the national service lady.

[00:07:49]Please get me that video. Who brought Stonebwoy to her office to come and dance? National service boss, you they are trying your predecessor in court.

[00:07:56]You won't focus on the work and be able to do something different and come and tell us that you've done something different. Your birthday you are dancing because you they separate separate you have a job. Anyway, that's their matter.

[00:08:05]It's not my matter. Wetin concern Musa?

[00:08:07]I don't care.

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