{"id":6426,"date":"2024-06-10T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:39:09","slug":"i-promise-you-a-leaner-government-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6426","title":{"rendered":"I promise you a leaner government \u2013 Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has promised Ghanaians to have a few ministers if he is voted for in this year\u2019s elections to become president again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also promised to reduce government spending and use the savings to improve the lives of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI promise you a leaner government. We\u2019ll have fewer ministers and cut government expenditure, and any savings that we make will be used to better the lives of our teachers and other national workers,\u201d he said in an address on Sunday June 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Mahama also reiterated that his 24-hour economy idea is what will develop the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 24-hour initiative is the answer for now and in the future, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-9ecfd621844679ddb75e9e99f6cb2d45 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f2-SBLvMwBo?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said, \u201cIt will create an enabling environment with deliberate policies for businesses, companies, and government institutions to operate 24\/7 in a three-eight-hour shift system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the traditional 8-hour shift system, Mr Mahama said \u201cthe two additional work shifts that my administration will introduce will double and sometimes triple the number of jobs that participate in public and private entities that we currently have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the 24-hour economy optimization strategy: giving more to society, providing efficient service delivery, and generating decent and well-paying jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe benefits of this system will include but not limited to; 24-hour port and harbour services, 24-hour customs services, 24-hour DVLA services, 24-hour agro-processing factories, 24-hour manufacturing industries, 24-hour construction companies and many more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has promised Ghanaians to have a few ministers if he is voted for in this year\u2019s elections to become president again. He also promised to reduce government spending and use the savings to improve the lives of the people. \u201cI promise you a leaner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1668],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-john-mahama-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6428,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/6428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}