News:
September 20, 2017
Minister of Aviation and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama, Cecilia Dapaah has given assurance that all will be done to improve airports in the various regions to boost tourism in the country.
“It is the vision of government to open up the country in terms of aviation, first to Ghanaians we are looking at investors and third to tourist who visit our country”.
When visitors travel all for six hours to Ghana for tourism, we do not want them to travel for long hours by road, but should rather go by air, adding that the Ministry want to move the aviation transport in Ghana to the next level.
The Minister made this known when members of the Public Account Committee (PAC) inquire on current state of the aviation industry.
She revealed to the Committee she has undertaken a working tour of the country and visited all the Regional airports.
“Currently we have 37 airlines out of that we have 2 cargo airlines and two domestic airlines in the country; some work has to be done on Paga airstrip and given land at Yendi and Kumasi to develop our air transport”, she said.
She stated that tender will be opened for the rehabilitation of the Tamale airport, stating that everything has been completed and funding is being sort for the new terminal to start.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com