Kotoka Airport faces closure?

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Tokyo !! 11 years ago

The whole country as a whole faces closure !!

The whole country as a whole faces closure !!
Fellow citizen. 11 years ago

The national government owns service providers how much more private companies. It`s the tune of the day.

The national government owns service providers how much more private companies. It`s the tune of the day.
HON SHAMO 11 years ago

WHAT ARE WE FACING? OH MOTHER GHANA, SO NDC CAN NOT DO ANY LITTLE THING BETTER AFTER 5YRS RULE? EVERYDAY BAD NEWS! I BLAME THOSE TRIBALIST WHO VOTES NOT ON ISUES BUT ON TRIBAL LINE

WHAT ARE WE FACING? OH MOTHER GHANA, SO NDC CAN NOT DO ANY LITTLE THING BETTER AFTER 5YRS RULE? EVERYDAY BAD NEWS! I BLAME THOSE TRIBALIST WHO VOTES NOT ON ISUES BUT ON TRIBAL LINE
kolo 11 years ago

it completely idiot and stupid to be saying all these nonsense here.. which airport in this world ever faces closure? are ghanaians mad or having brain fever? i said many times before,,it pains o be a ghanaian. change ghana t ...
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it completely idiot and stupid to be saying all these nonsense here.. which airport in this world ever faces closure? are ghanaians mad or having brain fever? i said many times before,,it pains o be a ghanaian. change ghana to communist state. silly ghana..motherfucker
Jenny 11 years ago

I heard an American company is accusing Ghana of fraud & racketeering, when Ghana cancelled an ongoing project by the Americans & instead, awarded that project to another company. They're suing Ghana for $600 million. It does ...
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I heard an American company is accusing Ghana of fraud & racketeering, when Ghana cancelled an ongoing project by the Americans & instead, awarded that project to another company. They're suing Ghana for $600 million. It doesn't get any worse.
kolo 11 years ago

if not for any technical reasons,,why should an airport close down? airport can only be shutdown temporarily if there is any technical blunder or problem. ghana airport faces closure because the airport owes a department in ...
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if not for any technical reasons,,why should an airport close down? airport can only be shutdown temporarily if there is any technical blunder or problem. ghana airport faces closure because the airport owes a department in the same country? how? it sounds stupid and nonsense.my brothers, sometimes i regard communism as a good or better system of governance than democracy,,the democratic air that we have blowing in ghana is causing more harm than good to africa.really. in communistic country,, the government takes charge of everything and citizens enjoy freely. go to china,go to cuba,but go to USA and ghana and UK,, only madness and stupidity you will see..people living in animaldoms and amgaedonic systems where their own herodotic laws stand against them. see it?
kolo 11 years ago

so a whole ghana,,where one customer officer stealing 3 containers at Tema harbour,, a country where custom officials are diverting modern and flashy cars people send abroad,,to their girl friends and families,, doens't have ...
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so a whole ghana,,where one customer officer stealing 3 containers at Tema harbour,, a country where custom officials are diverting modern and flashy cars people send abroad,,to their girl friends and families,, doens't have 600 million usd to pay? hey foolish ghana must be nuked one time,, hellish country ghana,, democracy corrupts the whole world now
Esi, USA. 11 years ago

it does not sound right to me at all when a country blessed with so much resources can just nt do anything sensible becos of unGodly n selfish people ruling the country many years now either NPP or NDC is doing anything sensi ...
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it does not sound right to me at all when a country blessed with so much resources can just nt do anything sensible becos of unGodly n selfish people ruling the country many years now either NPP or NDC is doing anything sensible,God pls help us with a leader with wisdom like Solomon if not ghana can not change 4 the better any time soon.No forcaters for four airports? God help
forson 11 years ago

So now do you agree with Osagyefo Dr. kwame Nkrumah´s idea and visionary wisdom of development? Nkrumah invited the Chinese to build factories in Ghana, and those days we had a lot of factories which every Ghanaian youth ca ...
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So now do you agree with Osagyefo Dr. kwame Nkrumah´s idea and visionary wisdom of development? Nkrumah invited the Chinese to build factories in Ghana, and those days we had a lot of factories which every Ghanaian youth can get a job doing, but all these factories have been collapsed by the useless leaders came after Nkrumah, now you see, everything we have in ghana is totally destroyed. The Americans and the British exploitation of our country want us to practice democracy so that they could easly exploit us. simple.
Fred 11 years ago

Please tell show me one communist country that has succeeded!
Soviet Union? Gone!
North Korea? They are starving!
China? Communist in name only, unbridled capitalism rules.
Ghana's problem? Politically appointed incompete ...
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Please tell show me one communist country that has succeeded!
Soviet Union? Gone!
North Korea? They are starving!
China? Communist in name only, unbridled capitalism rules.
Ghana's problem? Politically appointed incompetent and corrupt leaders and managers.
A recipe for failure!
KWAME 11 years ago

maybe not total closure, but less traffic if the corruption persist. i believe that you are very aware of the daylight robbery going on in the country

maybe not total closure, but less traffic if the corruption persist. i believe that you are very aware of the daylight robbery going on in the country
shamu 11 years ago

Kotoka Airport is too old to keep on operating. I would have wish if a new Airport can be built.

Kotoka Airport is too old to keep on operating. I would have wish if a new Airport can be built.
Don Blunt 11 years ago

If they can't operate this tiny Airport, how do you expect them to operate a bigger one?

Some Ghanaians have no iota of an idea how business runs, but they are forced in the name of partisan politics and/or nepotism to oc ...
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If they can't operate this tiny Airport, how do you expect them to operate a bigger one?

Some Ghanaians have no iota of an idea how business runs, but they are forced in the name of partisan politics and/or nepotism to occupy certain positions where the only thing they produce is DAMAGE.

It is not surprising to find NO Ghanaian high up the ladder in an international Body. Our true competence can't be valued.
Kawawa 11 years ago

There are no forecasters in Kumasi, Tamale, Sunyani and Takoradi and yet aircrafts have landed in these airports for years witout any incident. Can we not take it that by dint of stochastic and probability laws, the presence ...
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There are no forecasters in Kumasi, Tamale, Sunyani and Takoradi and yet aircrafts have landed in these airports for years witout any incident. Can we not take it that by dint of stochastic and probability laws, the presence of a forecaster at an airport for safe landing of aircrafts isby all intents and purposes not absolutely important. So tahts is why they are so treated by the GACL. I stand corrected. After all we know bigger carriers which landed unguarded and unnoticed like in the Entebbe Raid in Uganda!!!!
OBURONIBA FITAFITA 11 years ago

There are no guards at Banks A, B, C and D, all of which have not experienced any robberies in the past years therefore, using that basis Bank F does not need a security guard.

Kawawah, Ghana is lucky you are not part of t ...
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There are no guards at Banks A, B, C and D, all of which have not experienced any robberies in the past years therefore, using that basis Bank F does not need a security guard.

Kawawah, Ghana is lucky you are not part of their bogus decision making idiots.

It is hard to understand reasons behind all these failures. We must recalibre our minds to arrive at reasonableness. The government knows it takes money to run almost every operation be it the ECG, Water Management, Schools,Hospitals or Ghana Meteorological Agency, the agency under discussion.

It is therefore sad to note that even the President's office owes ECG big chunck of money which is needed to increase supply efficiency. With this attitude and no clear oversight and collection enforcement we are doomed to suffer indefinite failure.

It is only a fool who would defend failure as a virtue.
Kawawa 11 years ago

This is a typical allegory. If you dont understand english properly please go and learn. I think you should go and add NINCOMPOOP as your middle name. You are a canonical example of a classical idiot who cannot interprete any ...
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This is a typical allegory. If you dont understand english properly please go and learn. I think you should go and add NINCOMPOOP as your middle name. You are a canonical example of a classical idiot who cannot interprete anything hidden and yet facelessly and shamelessly depict your crass ignorance to society. With surrendous insurbodiantion you cease no opportunity to insult people who are far more intelligent and propserous than you. For all you should know about me, I am aPhysicist and I have worked in the meteo services dept. before and have moved on and is now a professor in the states. Tampiga
TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

STUPID AKONFEM PREZ

STUPID AKONFEM PREZ
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

Mahama is a waste of our resources
as well, he is just wasting the time,
the resources and the total economical
stability in our country. The Supreme
Court should hastens issues up. Our
nation is like someone been sente ...
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Mahama is a waste of our resources
as well, he is just wasting the time,
the resources and the total economical
stability in our country. The Supreme
Court should hastens issues up. Our
nation is like someone been sentenced to death, the nation is dying slowly
if the Supreme Court continue slowing
down matters.

President Akomfem.
George Sydney 11 years ago

KIA one of the best,and busiest airport in Africa.Is wrong i don't think the writer has travel to even South Africa Johannesburg O.R. TAMBO International Airport,else he will not write this mess.Kotoka International Airport w ...
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KIA one of the best,and busiest airport in Africa.Is wrong i don't think the writer has travel to even South Africa Johannesburg O.R. TAMBO International Airport,else he will not write this mess.Kotoka International Airport with no water in toilets the place full of mess, congested departure lounge area no room to move around just to mention a few.With all this will never make Kotoka International Airport the best and busiest airport in Africa.......LOL
Quarshie Agyeman-Sarpong. 11 years ago

True KIA is NOT among african jewels.Far from it,its numbers don't even come close to continental favorites like Bole in Addis,JKIA in Nairobi or OR Tambo in S. Africa.This airport is too old to be amongst the best even Malab ...
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True KIA is NOT among african jewels.Far from it,its numbers don't even come close to continental favorites like Bole in Addis,JKIA in Nairobi or OR Tambo in S. Africa.This airport is too old to be amongst the best even Malabo and Brazzaville are much more modern and cleaner.
Cobby. 11 years ago

You forgot to mention air traffic. So far, there are about 41 airlines operating to and from KIA, don't that count for something? Improvement comes but gradually thank you.

You forgot to mention air traffic. So far, there are about 41 airlines operating to and from KIA, don't that count for something? Improvement comes but gradually thank you.
OBURONIBA FITAFITA 11 years ago

Three years ago when Mills foresaw that our oil find would attract heavy investors and visitors to our country he advocated for an International Airport to be built to meet the projected demand.He set up a task force with the ...
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Three years ago when Mills foresaw that our oil find would attract heavy investors and visitors to our country he advocated for an International Airport to be built to meet the projected demand.He set up a task force with the VP at the helm to raise funds and builder-investment.Takoradi and Axim were hot favourites due to proximity and logical reasons. Among items were Safety, Emergency Responses ,Rapid deployment against piracy and Terrorist attacks,Hospitals and Housing.

Mills fell sick and for three years Mahama took over the reins. First he diverted the International Arport to be built at Tamale, ordered Fire Trucks and Ambulances, some mysteriously traced from clay manufacturers in Checkoslovakia, distributed them to favorite regions with heavy partisan connections.

Little has been said about helicopters which were to be ordered to meet such emergencies. Speed boats which were included vanished from them. This shows where we are as a nation. Please allow truth and facts to permeate our society. We need honest and caring minds, not pretentious connivers.
Super Observer 11 years ago

I don't particularly know which body is responsible for ensuring the safety of passengers bags at KIA. But what I do know is that there is too much stealing of departing passengers personal effects at KIA. Those thieves break ...
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I don't particularly know which body is responsible for ensuring the safety of passengers bags at KIA. But what I do know is that there is too much stealing of departing passengers personal effects at KIA. Those thieves break into passengers bags and satisfy themselves with any items of their choice from the bags of travellers. You arrive at your destination only to discover that some airport thieves in Accra have broken into your bags and selected what they liked among your personal effects. This is too bad for the image of Ghana and those responsible for the airport security must wake up. They should, for example, install CCTV everywhere at the airport. One thing that I am sure of is that no thief will ever go unpunished, either on earth here or in heaven. Amen.
Super Observer 11 years ago

I don't particularly know which body is responsible for ensuring the safety of passengers bags at KIA. But what I do know is that there is too much stealing of departing passengers personal effects at KIA. Those thieves break ...
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I don't particularly know which body is responsible for ensuring the safety of passengers bags at KIA. But what I do know is that there is too much stealing of departing passengers personal effects at KIA. Those thieves break into passengers bags and satisfy themselves with any items of their choice from the bags of travellers. You arrive at your destination only to discover that some airport thieves in Accra have broken into your bags and selected what they liked among your personal effects. This is too bad for the image of Ghana and those responsible for the airport security must wake up. They should, for example, install CCTV everywhere at the airport. One thing that I am sure of is that no thief will ever go unpunished, either on earth here or in heaven. Amen.
ST.FRANCIS 11 years ago

THINGS ARE FALLING APART.

THINGS ARE FALLING APART.
The truth 11 years ago

Kotoka airport is one of the busiest but cannot be counted among the best in Africa! lol. Johannesburg, Nairobi, Brazzaville, Addis Ababa, Tunis, Abidjan, Lusaka, even Arusha international airports for example are better than ...
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Kotoka airport is one of the busiest but cannot be counted among the best in Africa! lol. Johannesburg, Nairobi, Brazzaville, Addis Ababa, Tunis, Abidjan, Lusaka, even Arusha international airports for example are better than Kotoka. The so called first in Ghana were in Nkrumah days!!!!. Others have caught up and overtaken us and we are just talking behind.
Vivor 11 years ago

I have travelled to most of African countries and could tell you plainly that KIA is never the best in Africa.It may be the 7th,probably the 10th in certain categories.We were there before but many countries like SA,Kenya,Tun ...
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I have travelled to most of African countries and could tell you plainly that KIA is never the best in Africa.It may be the 7th,probably the 10th in certain categories.We were there before but many countries like SA,Kenya,Tunisia,Egypt,Lybia,even Ivory Coast have overtaken us.But we are better than many of them like DRC,Mali,Togo,Bourkina,Benin,Gambia, and the rest.We need an improvement and infrastructure and not a new airport.Our priority now should be water,energy,housing and education with proper roads and boost in agriculture.
ADABRAKA 11 years ago

In Ghana govt agencies refuse the payment of services when they use the others service. The current utility crisis is classical example. Gh Police will not pay for power it uses in their services; stations and barracks.

Mo ...
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In Ghana govt agencies refuse the payment of services when they use the others service. The current utility crisis is classical example. Gh Police will not pay for power it uses in their services; stations and barracks.

Most of these organisations then pass the huge cost to individual customers, that is why the cost of using many services in Gh is so high.
ANU 11 years ago

how do those local planes land; doing try and erro, my God! what a dangerious thing, Ghana, Ghana, where are we going and started from where. Kwame Nkrumah; MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE. May Ghana the whole country co ...
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how do those local planes land; doing try and erro, my God! what a dangerious thing, Ghana, Ghana, where are we going and started from where. Kwame Nkrumah; MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE. May Ghana the whole country continue to suffer until the whole people come to realise how dangerious the NPP who overthrown Kwame Nkruma was and continue to be
Chief amankwa 11 years ago

Ok

Ok
Solo 11 years ago

And so if Group Captain Stephen Komla assured The Chronicle that the Ghana Meteorological Agency 'had no intention of suspending its services' in spite of thye debt owed to it, why should The Chronicle then say that the Kotok ...
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And so if Group Captain Stephen Komla assured The Chronicle that the Ghana Meteorological Agency 'had no intention of suspending its services' in spite of thye debt owed to it, why should The Chronicle then say that the Kotoka International Airport faces closure? I am grossly disappointed in the chronicle.
Nora Owusu 11 years ago

It is time that Ghanaian leaders or authorities should stop selfishness and greediness. Why should the Civil Aviation Authority earns such a huge amount of income and owes the meteorological Agency if not greediness? Whoeve ...
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It is time that Ghanaian leaders or authorities should stop selfishness and greediness. Why should the Civil Aviation Authority earns such a huge amount of income and owes the meteorological Agency if not greediness? Whoever is responsibility for this payment should be ordered or instructed by the Ghana Government to make the payment with immediate effect.

I am so sorry for the way our leaders are managing this country. Ghana is never poor but leaders and politicians are destroying this country abusing our resources. They are all corrupts. Europeans do not have all these resource that we have in Ghana but look at the way they have been able to managed their countries. No single part has dust or mud. Please, think of the country and try to change your self-interest behaviour. God will never forgive any one of you. We are suffering.
Dave 11 years ago

what a joke KIA is not even in the top 15 busiest airport in Africa

what a joke KIA is not even in the top 15 busiest airport in Africa
Agyaku NYC 11 years ago

Ghana don`t have dedicated leaders with clear concept of leadership. The republic of Ghana was born with avarice and it has become a chain.

Ghana don`t have dedicated leaders with clear concept of leadership. The republic of Ghana was born with avarice and it has become a chain.
Alpha kay 11 years ago

Put more pepper in their ass those chaps at the GACL are lousy

Put more pepper in their ass those chaps at the GACL are lousy
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 11 years ago

Oh, Ghana! Debts everywhere but can sponsor 200 pastors to Israel!No water,power outages, unpaid workers etc.!Quo vadis, Ghana?

Oh, Ghana! Debts everywhere but can sponsor 200 pastors to Israel!No water,power outages, unpaid workers etc.!Quo vadis, Ghana?
Gabriel 11 years ago

GOVT SHD FACILITATE FOR THE PAYMENT OF KIA DEBT

GOVT SHD FACILITATE FOR THE PAYMENT OF KIA DEBT
KANAWU 11 years ago

WHAT A SHAME,NO ACCOUNTABILITY, PEOPLE IN POSITIONS ARE LOOTING THE COUNTRY & GOVERNMENT IS NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT IS PART OF IT.THINGS ARE FALLING APART THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD.HOW COME WITH ALL THE MILLIONS C ...
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WHAT A SHAME,NO ACCOUNTABILITY, PEOPLE IN POSITIONS ARE LOOTING THE COUNTRY & GOVERNMENT IS NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT IS PART OF IT.THINGS ARE FALLING APART THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD.HOW COME WITH ALL THE MILLIONS COLLECTED 2MILLION CEDIS IS NOW A PROBLEM AS KIA FACES CLOSURE? WHAT A SHAME AFTER 56 YEARS.
The sage 11 years ago

We talk too much thrash and do nothing .Every one calls himself a boss that is why this country is collapsing we need small dictatorship to make things work well
You people overthrew Nkrumah and promised you would turn Gha ...
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We talk too much thrash and do nothing .Every one calls himself a boss that is why this country is collapsing we need small dictatorship to make things work well
You people overthrew Nkrumah and promised you would turn Ghana into a maga country yet you cannot manage a small airport as Accra ASirport.
The nbame must be changed to Accra Airport of siomething befitting and not Kotoka Airport for that is where our downfall came from .
JONH KENNEDY KYEREMEH 11 years ago

Good evening Sir/Mad,
I have a financial solution,a speacial business plane to raise money before the situation get's off hand thank u

Good evening Sir/Mad,
I have a financial solution,a speacial business plane to raise money before the situation get's off hand thank u
Abeiku- SW2 London 11 years ago

GET WOYOME AND HIS BOYS TO PAY THE DEBT

GET WOYOME AND HIS BOYS TO PAY THE DEBT
Kumah 11 years ago

Who has closed the road in front of the airport? Please spare us the joke by t.he foreigners who visit our country. OPEN the road!!!
You have no justification. Lets stop this square pegs in round holes business. It does brin ...
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Who has closed the road in front of the airport? Please spare us the joke by t.he foreigners who visit our country. OPEN the road!!!
You have no justification. Lets stop this square pegs in round holes business. It does bring any Security Risk
K E D 11 years ago

are 'dialoguing' on how to settle the indebtedness.

Man, that is a really 'large' sentence.

are 'dialoguing' on how to settle the indebtedness.

Man, that is a really 'large' sentence.
Joker 11 years ago

Get Serious for a change KIA and pay off the damn outstanding debt. No two ways!

Get Serious for a change KIA and pay off the damn outstanding debt. No two ways!

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