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27 Feb

#SONA2024: Kumasi Airport To Be In May

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President Akufo-Addo has announced that the redevelopment of Kumasi International Airport is set to be completed and fully operationalized by May this year. The President was speaking during the State of the Nations Address in Parliament on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. He said the airport, which stands at a 98% completion rate, once operational will serve as a vital hub for regional connectivity, tourism, and trade in the Ashanti Region and beyond. He said the government’s priority to complete the airport reflects its determination to position the country as a leader in aviation excellence on the African continent. Source: Citinewsroom

21 Dec

Ashanti Regional Security Council Bans Movement Of Motorbikes, Tricycles Beyond Airport Premises

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The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has announced a new restriction on motorbikes and tricycles in the vicinity of the Kumasi Airport. Effective immediately, all riders are prohibited from travelling beyond the Airport Roundabout towards the airport itself. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Council cited safety concerns as the reason for the restriction. They noted that the presence of motorbikes and tricycles on the road leading to the airport poses a potential danger to both air passengers and motorists. It added that any driver who flouted the directive would be apprehended, arraigned before the court and prosecuted. “It…

04 Mar

Court Dismisses Injunction Application By Ahinsan Chief, Others.

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Court Dismisses Injunction Application By Ahinsan Chief, Others. A Kumasi High Court, Land Division section, Thursday, 4th March, 2021 has refused an injunction application filed by the Chief of AhInsan, Nana Dwumahene Ankoana III and others to stop the Assemblyman for the Ahinsan Estate Area for using government land to construct a Police Post. The Chief and others who were plaintiffs in the case had sought to argue that the government land in Ahinsan Estate still belonged to them. This is despite the compensation they had earlier received on the same from the Government of Ghana about almost a decade…

04 Oct

I’m Expanding Kumasi Airport To Make Air Travel In Ghana Easier – Akufo-Addo

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I’m Expanding Kumasi Airport To Make Air Travel In Ghana Easier – Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he is building the aviation industry by expanding the local airports including that of Kumasi. He said these projects will make air travel across the country easier and convenient. In a tweet, Mr Akufo-Addo who is campaigning to be reelected as president in the December 7 elections said “We are making air travel across the country easy and convenient by expanding the Kumasi, Sunyani and Tamale airports. #InfrastructureForAll #4MoreForNana” He also noted that his government is eradicating open defecation and…

28 Sep

President Akufo-Addo Inspects Work On 500-Bed Military Hospital; Kumasi Airport Project

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has inspected ongoing work on the construction of a 500-bed military hospital and work on the construction of Phase II of the Kumasi Airport project. President Akufo-Addo’s first port of call on day one of his 3-day working visit of the Ashanti Region was the Kumasi Airport. It will be recalled that on 6th June 2018, the President cut the sod for work to commence on phase Ii of the Kumasi Airport Project, where he explained that “the expansion of this airport is a critical part of government’s vision to expand the…

11 Sep

Ho Airport Is Like Somebody’s Single Bedroom- Chairman Wontumi Roasts John Mahama

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On the infrastructure front, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has continued to scrutinize the shoddy work undertaken by the erstwhile Mahama government. The NPP Chairman in an interview on the Wontumi Morning Show, described the Ho airport as a shambolic project which looks like a “single bedroom house” considering the amount of money the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) informed Ghanaians he spent on it. Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi explained that the NDC claimed they used a whopping $25 million on the project. But the NPP Chairman…

04 Sep

Mahama Built A “Kitchen Airport” At Kumasi…Pocketed $25m From The Deal

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Former President John Mahama pocketed $25 million from funds which were meant for the development of the Kumasi Airport, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Bosiako, has stated. The erstwhile National Democratic Congress estimated that $29 million would be used for the project but in the end, the NPP Chairman known as Chairman Wontumi revealed that only $4 million was used for it. Under the erstwhile NDC government, a total of US$29,093,097.90 was spent on the rehabilitation of the Kumasi Airport. According to the former Minister for Transport, Mrs Dzifa Attivor, the rehabilitation works affected…