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A Case for Kumasi International Airport

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  • sln4 10 years ago

    From your own analysis,Kotoka can be upgraded to accommodate for air traffic if better managed therefore making nonsense of the call for a second airport.Arguing for an international airport for Kumasi based on dermographics ...
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  • NTAMKESE 10 years ago

    MAY GOD FORGIVE YOUR SINS! YOU ARE CLEARLY ONE OF THOSE IDOTS WHO HATES ANYTHING ASANTE AND GOS ALMIGHTY WILL ONE DAY VISIT YOU WITH A CALAMITY YOU CANNOT BEAR. WHAT'S WRONG WITH KUMASI GETTING AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT> ISNT ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    A SECOND WORLD CLASS AIRPORT MUST BE LOCATED IN KUMASI. ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY. THIS WILL BRING IMPROVED DEVELOPMENT AS WELL.GOOD ARTICLE, BUT I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU ALL THIS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AN ARTICLE. NO REFEREND ...
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  • koko 10 years ago

    And what is wrong with tamale too getting an international airport? After all Kumasi is just 5-hr drive from Accra. Tamale is more suitable due to its location

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    TAMALE IS TOO FAR. TAMALE IS NOT THE 2ND BIGGEST CITY BY POPULATION IN GH. FOR LOGISTICAL PURPOSES, AN AIRPORT IN KUMASI IS BEFITTING. IF IN CASE A BOMB THREAT OR CRASH HAPPENS IN ACCRA/KOTOKA. PLANES CAN BE DIVERTED TO KUMAS ...
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  • Nash 10 years ago

    Tamale is not too far. infact Tamale has 10sq. miles of flat land for the project. It will inprove the lives of the people there too.

  • SIMPLE LOGIC 10 years ago

    Very good article. A second international for Ghana is must. A country the size of Ghana with a population of 25 million and only one international airport... what a shame!!!

    Is there any country the size and population as ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    I was reading your article and could hardly understand you with digits like 228, 21,5 and so on. I guess you live in USA- a nation with theological christianity, not knowing it is the devil nation. They use their theology of ...
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  • TOGBE KANTANKEROUS 10 years ago

    Legon Hill gets university so Kumasi must have a university. Legon gets medical school, so Kumasi must have a medical school too. Accra and Cape Coast have Achimotas, Mfantsipims and Adisadels, so Kumasi must pretend that Pre ...
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  • ASHANTI ROYALTY 10 years ago

    BRAVO TOGBE! YOU EARN THE POST OF THE CENTURY - AND THE IGNOBLE DISTINCTION OF MOST SYMBOLIC OF EWE STUPIDITY AND ENVY. NOT EVEN IN THE NEXT WORLD WOULD EWES BE EVEN CLOSE TO ASHANTIS; WE ARE LIGHT YEARS AHEAD AND YOU WILL NE ...
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  • to togbe kantankerous 10 years ago

    togbe u kn u are not a human being ,at least ashanti are human beings living in the bush full gold,cocoa n beautiful flowers,wat do u togbe have just yr senseless head n ugly face.u are a disgrace 2 africa

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Don't catch a fever, Kumasi through private sponsorship between individuals and an American company has reached an agreement to build a $300 million International Airport without government funding and we will build it and yo ...
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  • Be Bold 10 years ago

    Do you know what a contingency is other than your myopia? Moreover, you do not build an airport at a location where no one will use and that is when the demographics come in. Regardless of your tribal nonsense, it makes sense ...
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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Gosh,we still got a long way to go in aviation even by african standards.Our small airport is dilapidated and only handles 2m passengers a yr yet we can't manage.The airports in Addis and Nairobi handle in excess of 6m apiece ...
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  • Be Bold 10 years ago

    Tribal politics and stupidity are the causes of this when it is so obvious and clear that Ghana needs a world class airport in Kumasi for security, economic and demographic reasons. It will eventually come but you and I may b ...
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  • G.Dart 10 years ago

    Sunyani and Berekum are more appropriate. Conduct FULL SCI. STUDIES and you would see the truth.

  • CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

    You know what, lets determine the scientific center of Ghana, and place everything over there, that way every freak in this country will be equally satisfied. What rubbish!

    First and foremost, Kumasi is the last place for ...
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  • what 10 years ago

    Another tribalist fool

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    There's a big difference between a scientific center(can be anywhere) and a geographic center.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    WOW! CITIZEN ONE. AFTER SPEWING ALL THIS VENOM YOU STILL THINK SOMEONE ELSE IS THE HATER? TAKE A NAP. WHEN YOU WAKE UP YOU WILL BE ALRIGHT

  • joe 10 years ago

    Please think before you talk.kumasi international Airport project is long overdue.After kumasi,Tamale should be the next city for another international airport to be built.

  • Be Bold 10 years ago

    Brainless assessment, brainless thought process and brainless utterance to say the least!
    All kinds of people live in Kumasi. Accra is choked because of the poor thinking like you have expressed. Get over your hatred and ig ...
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  • Kalakuta 10 years ago

    Is this guy crazy or what? Volta region is closer to Kumasi than Accra? God help us. Please go read your maps of Ghana well.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    Kete Krachi, not Volta as a whole. Learn to read before posting

  • Ebiradze Boy 10 years ago

    We need such people/ a tinker to help save Ghana from the konkonte Goverment.

  • Kumi 10 years ago

    Your taught are good but building an international airport in Kumasi will not be a good idea because the city is full of illiterates and selfish minded people, the city is already full and the airport that you said to be b ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    But in the United States, the busiest airports are NOT in Washington DC. They are Atlanta Hartsfield, Chicago O'Hare, and Dallas/Fort Worth in that order. So where is your "capital" argument?

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    Wow.

    We have some clueless dumb idiots among us.

    Folks like this dude spews nonsense like acid sustains his brain stem.

    Unbelievable.

    An illiterate from Kumasi is more intelligent, smarter and has more wisdom ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    THE AITHOR MAKES SOME VERY INTERESTING POINTS.

  • koko 10 years ago

    A joker! The most educated asante cannot intellectually compare to any part of the country. They are the last on the IQ ladder scale of ghana

  • NDC MAN 10 years ago

    KUMI: Capital of Australia is Canberra but with no international airport; capital of Fiji is Suva but international is at Nadi; Capital of USA is Washington but international airport is closer to Baltimore and all major airpo ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Washington D.C has an International Airport, Dulles International and Baltimore too has an International Airport. USA has more than i20 International Airport with California, Texas and Florida having 10 or more International ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    Again, Canada's largest airport is not in Ottawa the capital, but in Toronto.

  • be wise 10 years ago

    let me show u where the illiterate in kumasi leave n where they from,anloga slum ewes ,aboabo,asawasi,aboabo slums northerners,infact i think it will wise if we demolish n sack dis people from dis slums just as the way we did ...
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  • Pumpuni 10 years ago

    An NDC government will never build an International Airport in Kumasi.
    Why? The answer is simple: Politically, it is an astute measure to forestall SECESSION. Let the hawks start talking. Let the hawks start writing. That's ...
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  • pa Nii 10 years ago

    This is certainly a good piece that opens minds to greater possibilities for growth and optimism. A second international airport that meets optimum international standards is certainly in a good direction taking into consider ...
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  • DOOBIA 10 years ago

    If the major thrust of your argument if decentralisation then Tamale and not kumasi should be the ideal place. It takes lesser hours to comote from Accra to kumasi compared with Tamale. Now let me tell you why Tamale is the p ...
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  • xyz 10 years ago

    Good idea . I am impressed

  • tamale one step at a time 10 years ago

    people of tamale yr problems are too much to have international airport.poverty is everywhere n u dont want industries but airport for mecca once a year eeii how many planes will land in a year at tamale airport maybe 4 in a ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Tell me, apart from People from the three Northern Regions, who are just under 5% of Ghanaian Diasporians and a small part of B/A, who will use the Tamale International airport to travel? Ashanti region alone has about 50% ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Projects that are truly yours? How do you fathom that? What does the North produce to earn Ghana foreign exchange for you to talk about projects that are yours? Do you want Asate cocoa, gold and timber to build your Airport?
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  • Kb 10 years ago

    What do you know about the north

  • king ny 10 years ago

    i dont kn y some stupid smelling ugly bastard people from dirty n God forsaken tribes in gh hate ASHANTIS simply becos they greater n successful

  • PRINCO 10 years ago

    Well ashantis are very accomodative, there is alot of ewes living in kumasi, a place called Anloga town. How many ashantis would Ewes readily accomodate. Ewes hate ashantis for no apparent reason. Ashantis are proud because t ...
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  • Onipa Nua 10 years ago

    A good case on decentralization. I suggest you push this to the attention of the people at the top.

    To all those making noise and heaping insults,I'll say grow up and stop your narrow minded nonesense. The guy is making a ...
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  • Be Bold 10 years ago

    Amen to your comments. I never knew there are that many ignorant people living among us and destroying themselves.

  • LovelyMe 10 years ago

    Why is the writer presenting Kumasi as the only option for a new international airport?What is so wrong about the proposed Ningo/Prampram site?What about Brong Ahafo region where its geographically better placed than Kumasi w ...
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  • Be Bold 10 years ago

    I think Kumasi becomes a focus due to demographics, geography and other infrastructures. There is nothing wrong with Prampram as a site but it takes away from the decentralization theme and its logic. I don't understand why K ...
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  • chris scott 10 years ago

    well stated! I will share the article to the KMA to start with

  • chris scott 10 years ago

    Cogent writing! check out scrap short term visas to ghana Facebook group where I mention Ningo project

    and I address the issue on madinghana dot wordpress blog where I will paste a link to this wonderful article....
    you'r ...
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  • Philadelphia Boy 10 years ago

    Well written article which is worth considering. In support of the article I wish to say that weather is a major factor in aviation. And since a bad weather in Acrra will likely affect Prampram too, the Kumasi option makes a ...
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  • James Dadzie 10 years ago

    Yours is a thought-provoking suggestion and I am surprised at the hostile response by some idiotic readers who have turned your opinion into a tribal issue.Please,ignore those senseless comments.

  • Efo Dagadu 10 years ago

    THESE PEPEFO AND AYIGBEFO DON'T LIKE ASANTES AND KUMASI AND ARE TOO STUPID TO KNOW THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF HAVING AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN KUMASI. THAT FOOL KUFFOUR COULD HAVE BUILT ONE, BUT DIDN'T.

  • Kb 10 years ago

    Always lying sarpong