Akosua Manu, the 2024 Parliamentary Candidate for Adentan, has dismissed the government’s proposed 24-Hour Economy policy as a political script of deception, lacking both funding and a clear implementation plan.

Speaking on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Thursday, June 12, she criticised the policy, describing it as an empty promise not backed by any budgetary allocation or strategic framework.
“The 24-hour economy is the textbook example of political deception. A big empty promise disguised as transformation. Because if they believed in it, we would have found it in the budget. It’s just a slogan. You cannot preach a 24-hour economy and not allocate resources to core sectors of the economy,” she stated.

The policy, championed by President John Dramani Mahama, has been touted as a “game-changing strategy” aimed at increasing productivity and boosting exports.

Scheduled to begin on July 1, 2025, it promises to extend operations in sectors such as agriculture, health, manufacturing, and transport.

However, Mrs. Manu questioned the feasibility of the initiative, arguing that the lack of budgetary provisions in these core areas signals the absence of a genuine plan.
“The 24-hour economy is not a strategy, it is a slogan. If indeed it is not a slogan, we would have seen allocation into at least four major areas: energy, health, manufacturing and transport. But we have not seen anything to show that indeed there is a definite plan. It is a political script of deception,” she said.