The head of the New Force movement, Nana Kwame Bediako, also known as Freedom Jacob Caesar or Cheddar, has outlined why a 24-hour shift is the greatest method to create jobs for Ghanaians.
According to him, the greatest thing to do is invest in and improve industrialization, which is the primary tool for creating jobs for Ghanaians.
He stated that former president and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama’s 24-hour policy cannot be implemented until the country has industrial electricity.
“These procedures, one, two, and three, can produce 100,000 employment in a plant or two plants because these plants are robots that work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which means that people will begin working eight-hour shifts. I do not support a 24-hour policy; nevertheless, if we have industrial power, I am willing to work a 24-hour shift.
I’m not familiar with the 24-hour policy you’re referring to. I wouldn’t be here stating what I don’t know; I’m only talking about what I understand and what I know is best in terms of industrialization, because if people work from 8 to 6 and another person comes in to take over the shift from 8 to 12 and so on. He claimed in an interview with TV3.
“For me, my interest is the three ways of creating jobs and so the workers are 10,000, by 8 to 6, you will have anither 10,000 coming after so instead of creating 10,000 jobs now is 30,000 jobs and I think is happening everywhere in the world that is well developed, they have their industrial areas and they create a lot of things and sell to the world.” He added.
The businessman bemoaned the country’s past and present administrations’ inability to convert the country’s vast resources into completed goods while continuing to acquire them from other countries.
“The future of Ghana and Africa will be based on the industrial revolution, which is about to begin, in which we will ensure that we manufacture our resources so that we do not have to buy them again because the people who are taking our resources, bauxite, we will go back to China to buy aluminium and bring it back after they have refined it. So I don’t want to be able to promote industrialization and teach our children, the nation, or our country how to convert bauxite to aluminium, and then to aluminium.” He responded.
