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Aviation Minister Joseph Kofi Adda has revealed that potential investors have shown interest in partnering with the government to build the Cape Coast airport.
The announcement of the construction of an airport in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region, was met with mixed reactions.
While some argue that the project does not make economic sense, others have welcomed the move.
But speaking to Citi News, Adda justified the airport project by stating that a feasibility study on the construction is currently underway.
“We have had quite a few interested partners who have come to discuss with us. If you go to the Central Region, it is considered to be the tourist hub of Ghana. But how fast do you get there? Does one have to drive three hours through the traffic in Kasoa to get there or does it take 10-15-30 minutes to get there by air? Should our school kids sit on a bus for so long? How many times do we have an accident on the road? All of these are opportunities for entrepreneurs to decide. ”
“Let you and I not decide for commercial investors, come and evaluate and tell us if they want to do it or not. for now, as we speak, we have no proposal before us. We are negotiating with them the best way to go ahead with them so that, in the end, they decide if they put their money there or not, “he added.
New airport wiser than dualizing Cape Coast – Yofi Grant highway
The executive director (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), Yofi Grant, has defended the government’s promise to build an airport in the capital of the Central Region, Cape Coast.
Yofi Grant said there was enough investor-related evidence to support the establishment of a new airport on Cape Coast.
Regarding the proposals to dualize the road network to the Central Region instead of providing the airport, Mr. Grant said that these arguments are not well founded and added that the alternative is more expensive.
Yofi Grant, who described it as a “bogus argument,” argued that it was even better to travel to Cape Coast, which is a cradle for education and a hub for tourism and commercial activities by air rather than by road.
“People don’t have to drive two hours to get to Cape Coast. It is a very false assumption that every tourist who comes is more interested in the scenery along the road than the destination (Cape Coast). It is a fallacious argument. You cannot make such an assumption. It will not be better to dualize the road. It will be easier and happier for you to be on Cape Coast in 30 minutes than to spend two hours on the road with poor driving, ”he said.
— citinewsroom
