By The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, has said the Mahama administration’s 24-hour economy policy is progressing faster than critics have suggested, revealing that all sector agencies have been directed to produce implementation blueprints for their respective industries.
Speaking on Newsfile the day after President Mahama’s 2026 State of the Nation Address, Tamakloe, who also chairs the 24-Hour Economy Steering Committee for the downstream petroleum sector, directly challenged claims from opposition communicators that the policy was all talk.
“What the president has done — which you don’t know — is task all sector agencies to put up a blueprint for the 24-hour programme in all sectors,” he said.
Tamakloe said that at the NPA, a host-sharing committee has been convened with key stakeholders to ensure Ghana’s depots, refineries, and jetties can operate around the clock. “We strongly believe that our depots, the refineries, the jetties — we can deploy a 24-hour operation. It is something that is ongoing,” he added.
The NPA CEO first signalled this approach at the New Year School and Conference in January 2026, confirming his leadership of the Steering Committee tasked with addressing infrastructure challenges and enabling effective deployment of the 24-hour economy in the petroleum downstream industry.
According to Tamakloe, the policy is projected to create up to 1.7 million jobs over four years, stimulating economic activity and raising living standards through continuous productivity.
His comments follow President Mahama’s signing of the 24-Hour Economy Authority Bill into law on February 19, 2026, which established a coordinating body for the policy.
Critics, including NPP communicators like Dennis Miracles Aboagye, had described the law as a bureaucratic shell.
Tamakloe pushed back, stressing that the authority is meant to provide sector-specific roadmaps, not top-down directives.
