The Minority Spokesperson on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has criticised the government’s 24-Hour Economy initiative, calling the recently passed 24-Hour Economy Authority Bill, 2025, “inadequate and lacking substance.”
Parliament approved the bill on Friday, February 6, 2026, after heated debates between the Majority and Minority caucuses.
The legislation aims to establish the 24-Hour Economy Authority to implement the 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Programme, transforming Ghana’s economy into a 24-hour operational system.
The Authority is tasked with coordinating public and private sector activities, mobilising investments, and ensuring infrastructure and regulatory systems are in place to sustain round-the-clock economic activity.
However, in a Sunday interview, Oppong Nkrumah argued that the bill fails to require state or private institutions to operate 24/7 and does not provide a clear framework for implementing the widely promoted “1-3-3” model.
He warned that without these provisions, the initiative risks remaining largely symbolic.
“When you read the bill, nowhere in the bill does it say they are going to cause even state agencies or private agencies to work for 24 hours. The 1-3-3 they gave us, nowhere in the bill will you find it,” he said.
The Minority spokesperson described the Authority as a “crafty institution” designed to create the impression of progress without delivering tangible outcomes.
“What they have created is a very crafty institution to dangle in the face of young Ghanaians that the 24-Hour bill has been passed so something is happening. Absolutely nothing is happening,” he asserted.
He said the Authority will not be able to achieve its mandate of establishing a 24-hour working cycle.
“I say with a lot of pain and I regret to say that what they have passed will not deliver a 24-Hour work cycle in this country. We will be here.
“I regret to say that they have deceived the young people of this country,” he said on TV3’s Hot Issues on February, 2026.
