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Reaction TO HON. SAMUEL OKUDZETO ABLAKWA'S Cases ON PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO'S Outing TO BELGIUM AND RWANDA;
My consideration has been attracted to a Facebook post by Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Individual from Parliament for North Tongu, expressing completely that "for President Akufo-Addo's ongoing outing to Belgium and Rwanda starting Sunday the nineteenth of June, 2022 to go to the fifteenth Release of the European Improvement Days Discussion in Brussels, Belgium, and the 26th Gathering of the Heads of Legislature of the Region of Countries in Kigali, Rwanda; we can affirm a moderate bill of €480,000.00".
As per Hon. Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, the President's excursions to Belgium, and in this manner to Rwanda were on board an Airbus ACJ319, enlisted D-Alex. He further adds that "the 480,000 Euros which is gotten from 21 hours of complete flight time in addition to other industry charges works out to some 4.1million Ghana Cedis at current conversion scale".
These cases by the North Tongu MP are not precise, and as an Individual from Parliament, I was trusting he would have been verifiable and honest in his cases, and fought the temptation to participate in publicity.
Current realities of the matter are as per the following.
President Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Sunday, nineteenth June 2022, to go to the fifteenth version of the European Improvement Days Gathering in Brussels, Belgium. It is public information that President Akufo-Addo Didn't go to Belgium on board a contracted Airbus ACJ319, as is being guaranteed by the North Tongu MP. The President ventured out to Belgium installed an Air France Business Flight (AF0584), what left Accra on Sunday at 7:20pm, made a visit in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and afterward proceeded to Paris. Truth be told, President Akufo-Addo's all's 12-part assignment voyaged business.
Upon appearance in Paris, President Akufo-Addo and his designation made a trip through train to Brussels to go to the European Improvement Days occasion, where, on Tuesday, 21st June 2022, he was a featured expert, and later held gatherings with the Leader of the European Venture Bank on two critical branches of knowledge - the monetary help to Ghana for the Advancement Bank Ghana and for the development of an immunization producing Plant in Ghana. He likewise held a gathering with His Excellency Charles Michel, Leader of the European Board, on issues of common interest, particularly the continuous fear based oppressor exercises in the Sahel.
Without a doubt, before the President's takeoff from Accra to Brussels on Sunday, nineteenth June, Ghana's Central goal in Brussels had sent notice of a looming strike in the flying area in Belgium to the Administration and to the Unfamiliar Service. To be sure, on seventeenth June, unionized Brussels Carrier laborers, including pilots and group, had reported their choice to leave on a strike starting Thursday, 23rd June, to Saturday, 25th June. This planned to bring about the wiping out of more than 300 (300) flights, including those from Brussels to Kigali. In facilitation of this, Belgium's biggest air terminal, Brussels Air terminal, was constrained to drop all friendly trips on Monday, twentieth June, the day President Akufo-Addo showed up in Brussels, since representatives at the air terminal had participated in an aeronautics area strike.
With the Administration having been given earlier data in regards to the strike activity before the President's outing to Brussels, the choice to travel utilizing an immediate business departure from Brussels to Kigali was not accessible. In this way, the choice was taken to contract a trip for President Akufo-Addo and his company to make the eight hour and forty-minute flight (8h 40min) departure from Brussels to Kigali on Wednesday, 22nd June. This was finished to guarantee that the President came to Kigali on chance to take part in the momentous function on Thursday, 23rd June, for beginning of work on the Container African Immunization Assembling Venture, including Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal and BioNTech SE, the German biotechnology organization, as well as go to the Federation Heads of Government Meeting, which additionally is being held in Kigali, Rwanda.
I don't think the Individual from Parliament for North Tongu is recommending, in any state of structure, that the President, considering these difficulties in Brussels and furthermore taking into account the President's security, ought to have gone from Brussels to Amsterdam or London, for instance, in the melancholy any expectation of attempting to get a trip to Rwanda. To be sure, travel to Kigali for CHOGM has been risky, bringing about RwandAir, the public carrier of Rwanda, for instance, coordinating an extraordinary trip to convey Province High Magistrates, from London to Kigali, to empower them partake in the Culmination.
The Primary Woman showed up in Kigali on Wednesday, 22nd June, utilizing the Official Stream, on the grounds that the arrangement has forever been that the President and a few individuals from his designation, along with the Main Woman, will utilize the Official Fly to make the 4-hour 45 moment (4hr 45mins) return departure from Kigali to Accra on Saturday, 25th June 2022. To be sure, for trips inside Africa, and for trips that don't keep going for more than six (6) hours, the President keeps on involving the Official Fly for those excursions.
One such excursion to be embraced by the President, where the Official Fly is to be utilized, will be on Sunday, 26th June, where he will make a trip to Lisbon, Portugal, to go to the 2022 UN Sea Gathering, and get back on Wednesday, 29th June.