Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, says the newly launched 24-Hour Economy policy by President John Dramani Mahama will be led by the private sector, not government.<\/p>\n
Speaking on\u00a0PM Express<\/em>, the Tamale South MP said the president made it clear that government would only act as a facilitator and enabler to support businesses willing to take up the initiative.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat was profound is for the President to remark publicly that 24-hour economy will be private sector led, and that it will not be dominated by government, and that government will only be an enabler, a facilitator, for the private sector to take up the initiative in the various sectors of the economy,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The remarks followed the official unveiling of the policy by President Mahama earlier in the day on July 2, which the former Minority Leader described as a \u201crare opportunity\u201d and \u201cnot a nerve-breaking exercise at all\u201d for the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to him, President Mahama launched the 24-Hour Economy alongside the Accelerated Export Development Initiative as part of a strategic national response to Ghana\u2019s import-heavy economy.<\/p>\n \u201cHe launched the 24-hour policy and the accelerated Export Development Initiative of his government, and shared with the Ghanaian people that this has been in his thinking and contemplation in the last four or more years,\u201d Mr Iddrisu noted.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s talked about it whilst being out of government as President of the Republic, and expedited by the circumstance of our country that we still spend huge amounts of money on imports.\u201d<\/p>\n He cited figures shared by Mahama to illustrate the challenge. \u201cAbout $3 billion on rice imports, $3.4 billion on cereal grains, frozen poultry on $2.6 billion and sugar taking $2.4 billion,\u201d he said, emphasising the urgency of promoting local production and export.<\/p>\n Haruna Iddrisu said he interpreted the launch as a direct response to a national need.<\/p>\n \u201cIt means that the President wants to respond to a national need, a need for us to invest more in – in his words – to have a self-reliant, dependent, food sufficient, producing country that can feed itself in a country that guarantees food security.\u201d<\/p>\n He also highlighted the significance of the president appointing Goosie Tanoh to spearhead the initiative.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is why he\u2019s gotten Goosie Tanoh, one of the sharpest and brilliant minds of the NDC, to be the anchor person to guide him in implementing the 24-hour economy.\u201d<\/p>\n Haruna Iddrisu emphasised that Mahama\u2019s intentions go beyond slogans.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom policy or from slogan to action, 24-hour plus initiative of the president,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not an event or a race which must end today.\u201d<\/p>\n Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, says the newly launched 24-Hour Economy policy by President John Dramani Mahama will be led by the private sector, not government. Speaking on\u00a0PM Express, the Tamale South MP said the president made it clear that government would only act as a facilitator and enabler to support businesses willing to take up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3507],"tags":[1167,224],"class_list":["post-11518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national","tag-24-hour-economy","tag-haruna-iddrisu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11520,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions\/11520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Disclaimer: The content provided on Fish FM Online is for informational and entertainment purposes only. 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