Dr Rashid Pelpuo, the Minister of State in Charge of Special Initiatives, has revealed that over 400 companies have expressed interest in operating under Ghana’s 24-Hour Economy policy.
According to Dr Rashid Pelpuo, several companies had already begun implementing 24-hour operations.
He disclosed that the government is seeking to expand the initiative through the private sector by creating the necessary conditions for businesses to operate around the clock.
Dr Rashid Pelpuo further argued that the success of the 24-Hour Economy should not be assessed solely by whether ministries and other public institutions have adopted three-shift systems.
Speaking on Citi FM on Thursday, August 27, 2026, Dr Rashid Pelpuo stated, “We have listed more than 400 companies that are saying, We want to run the 24-hour economy policy”.
“The fact is that we are creating an avenue for the private sector to take advantage of and do it. And that’s exactly what we are doing,” he said, adding that the government was providing some of the requirements needed by participating businesses to maintain continuous operations.
“When you are talking about job creation and when you are talking about employment, it’s not just government employing people. We are talking about a holistic economic approach,” he said.
Also, in that same interview, Dr Rashid Pelpuo rated the John Mahama government’s performance on job creation B+.
According to Dr Rashid Pelpuo, the government’s performance on job creation is getting close to A despite persistent concerns over unemployment.
The former Ministry for Labour, Jobs and Employment defended the government’s record, contending that job creation should not be measured solely by the number of people directly employed by the government.
Dr Rashid Pelpuo stated, “I think we’ve gotten a B. Even B+. We’re getting close to A,” he said when asked to grade the government’s performance on job creation over the past one and a half years.
“We have a multisectoral approach to job creation and accounting for the number of jobs that are created,” he said.
He further revealed that the government was still compiling data needed to establish the exact number of jobs created since it took office.
“If I give you any number now, it would be an estimate. I have written to all the ministries and departments to give me the number of jobs that have been created so far,” he said.
“We hope that by the time we finish compiling it, we’ll be able to concretely say that we have created this number of jobs.”
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