Suspended Ghana International Airways Refund is Long Overdue

I feel that there have not been enough coverage on this issue of GIA refund and hence this “piece”

Ghana International Airlines (GIA) was the national airlines of the Ghana and operated scheduled, charter passenger and cargo services. Ghanaian government owned 70% and others 30%. During difficult times, the Kuffour Government indicated its intention to re-capitalise and re-structure the airline with the assistance of new partners who were never disclosed. FM Radios, TVs and Newspapers were used to promote GIA. We all believed them. Hardly did we know that the shareholders had been engaged in a protracted legal dispute since 2006: Astraeus Airlines, a British charter airline based in UK was already taking legal action to ground its plane and Mills administration had made its mind to” let the GIA go bust”

On May 14, 2010, the Ghana Government suspended the airline and it ceased operations, stranding passengers in London, Dusseldorf and Accra.

Since that “D DAY” UK and Germany passengers have, at the time of writing, neither received their refunds nor compensation and apology from the government (RCA). This can only happened in a third world country like Ghana. It is really sad that patriotic fellow Ghanaians should be treated this way.

The Ghana Government has moral and legal obligation to do the RCA above. What surprised most people was that none of the politicians even mentioned passengers predicament on political platforms. They are all guilty.

The stranded passenger have suffered enough and it is about time the Mills Administration progress-chased for these passengers to be given their REFUNDS immediately and at worse apologise to them as well.