Independent Presidential Aspirant, Dr. Tom Asiseh, is challenging President John Dramani Mahama’s administration’s economic direction, arguing that Ghana has drifted from a “God-given” blueprint, the Reset Agenda, to what he describes as a political improvisation in the form of the 24-Hour Economy policy.
Dr. Asiseh argues that the Reset Agenda, introduced when President Mahama assumed office, was an appropriate means of driving a systemic and value-driven framework that will rebuild the foundations of the country, and not just a policy to create jobs or extend working hours.
The member of the Ghana Diaspora Movement maintains that there’s a difference between policy and system.
In an article he authored cited by The High Street Journal titled, “Beware of Political Smokescreen,” Dr. Asiseh stresses, all over the world, developed countries reset their system through a foundation reset agenda before policies, such as a 24-Hour Economy, are implemented.
“There’s a difference between policy and system. Developed countries used a reset system for the development of their nation, then successive leaders later used policy to service the developed system,” Dr. Asiseh noted.
According to him, while President Mahama’s 24-Hour Economy can stimulate activity in specific sectors, it cannot substitute for a comprehensive national system that aligns governance, productivity, and values, which are the very essence of what the Reset Agenda represents.
To him, the overemphasis on the 24-Hour Economy with minimal attention to a drastic systemic reset can be likened to a ship that has lost its compass. He warns that without restoring the Reset Agenda, Ghana risks “a recycle of the broken past.”
The Reset Agenda, as Dr. Asiseh defines it, is a holistic framework rooted in divine direction. He says such a system that empowers institutions, strengthens governance, and rebuilds moral and economic foundations, much like Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s nation-building blueprint after independence.
He further observes that countries such as the United States, Germany, and Japan did not develop through fragmented political policies but through well-grounded systems built on national values, discipline, and continuity. Policies came later, sustained by those systems.
“Ghana is like a periphery country struggling to develop; therefore, using a 24-hour economy policy may have a facetious look because it is not a system. The reset system was used by Dr Kwame Nkrumah to rebuild the broken walls of the Gold Coast, then laid the solid foundation for the new Ghana,” he noted
He added, “The national reset system aligns with our national values. The history of developed countries is written with the ink of values and their foundation laid through the reset system.”
By contrast, he sees Ghana’s 24-Hour Economy initiative as a short-term political narrative that lacks structural depth. “A 24-hour economy policy may have a facetious look because it is not a system,” he cautions, suggesting that without the Reset Agenda, such initiatives amount to “patching the roof of a collapsing house.”
He further laments that, eight months into the administration, there are much of visible signs of the Reset Agenda’s implementation.
He calls on the government that Ghana’s transformation requires not merely a 24-hour policy but a 24-hour commitment to rebuilding its foundational system to reconnect governance to values, and development to purpose.
