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General news for Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Source: 3 News
2020-11-10
Stock Photo: Kumasi airport facilities.
Ashanti region minister Simon Osei-Mensah says that by the middle of next year, the region will see the completion of a “proper” international airport.
He hinted that what is now in the regional capital, Kumasi, only exists in nomenclature.
Speaking at the Nation Building Updates at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, November 10, Mensah said: “We are now building a suitable international airport for which we are expanding the fugitive by another 200 meters.
“That is what we call an international airport,” he said.
Work to upgrade the Kumasi airport to an international standard began under the management led by John Mahama.
Then-President Mahama made a first symbolic landing with the presidential jet from Abuja, Nigeria, where he had attended the 46th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
His arrival at the airport is said to give him international status.
After work on Phase One was completed in 2014, then-President Mahama cut grass in December 2016 for expansion works to begin.
But President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo also cut grass in 2018 for the Phase 2 project.
That is expected to be completed in 2021, Osei Mensah said, to receive international flights directly.
This, he described, “a suitable international airport, not an airport by nomenclature.”
He also outlined some achievements of the current government in the region, including the redesign of the New Edubiase Stadium to meet FIFA’s requirements.
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