BECE candidate urges implementation of 24-hour economy

Master Michael Nabi, a candidate writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Sunyani Municipality has called on President John Dramani Mahama to implement the 24-hour economy.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at New-Dormaa, he said most people in Sunyani were hopeful that the 24-hour economy would create opportunity for some of them to find something worth doing as they awaited their results.
Master Nabi, a candidate at the New-Dormaa Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Basic School, said he anticipated doing ‘something’ after the examination, to enable him to prepare adequately for Senior High School (SHS).
He said he had prepared himself adequately for the BECE, with the assurance to write and pass the examination well, and to benefit from the Free SHS programme.
The BECE candidate added that he was always moved by the poverty and economic hardships his family was going through, to do some kind of work, and to support his parents to meet the family needs.
In another interview, Madam Adam Abiba, a firewood seller at New-Dormaa also appealed to the President to do more to cut down the high cost of living and thereby alleviate the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
She told the GNA that the “high cost” of basic food items was challenging for some of them, saying the “firewood business doesn’t move nowadays”.
Mad Abiba, 75 years old said: “if I have any other option, I will stop the firewood business because it’s not lucrative anymore”,and called on the President to establish the Women Development Bank.
She said: “President Mahama promised to make life better for us when he came here for the 2024 electioneering campaign and we are expecting him to fulfil his campaign promises”
GNA