Minister of Transport, Dzifa Ativor says plans are underway to purchase a new airline for the nation.
The
new airline is to replace the derelict national air plane, Ghana
Airways, and give Ghanaians the opportunity to boast of their own
national carrier again.
The Minister, in an interview with Radio
Gold, bemoaned the operations of the erstwhile Kufour government which
resulted in the fortunes of the national asset going down the drain.
According
to her, the NPP government under the leadership of President J.A Kufour
liquidated the national asset and abandoned it but to her, hope is on
the way.
She assured the citizenry that the John Mahama-led
"government has started a process of setting up a new national
carrier…As you may recall, in the State of the Nation address of His
Excellency the President; he made it clear that we will be setting up a
new national carrier based on a PPP basis. So, we needed a competent
experienced company to guide the process so that we don’t repeat what
happened earlier on. So, the process has begun. The companies submitted
their documentations and evaluation process is ongoing.”
It is of
much relevance to get "a national carrier which will transport
passengers to one destination and that is Kotoka for redistribution,"
she stated.
Meanwhile, the Minister is in the Volta Region to inspect an earmarked land for the construction of a new Regional airport. |
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