An Aviation Expert primarily based totally withinside the United States, Mr Sean Mendis, has stated Ghana’s presidential jet, the Falcon, isn't always best for lengthy trips.
He stated it is able to embark on such trips however, with a view to require a better technical aid and additionally with much less baggage and passengers onboard.
He stated those while requested whether or not the Falcon is appropriate for lengthy hour journeys, whilst speakme in an interview with TV3’s Komla Adom at the mid-day information on Monday 27.
“No,” he answered. He brought that “the Falcon isn't always the proper jet for lengthy haul travel. It is optimally applicable for journeys from Ghana to everywhere in Africa , perhaps a few elements of Europe. If you'll Asia, in case you are going to North American or a few , the Falcon could be capable of do it however would require better technical stuffs.
“Optimally it may possibly do round 3000 miles which is set 6 hours. It is able to flying similarly with much less baggage, with much less human beings on board.”
The interview become primarily based totally at the criticisms in opposition to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo through North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, for what he believes is the President’s seeming extravagance with reference to the flights chartered for his journeys abroad.
The Director of Communications on the Presidency Mr Eugene Arhin has stated he hoped that Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa might lower back up his declare that President Akufo-Addo travelled to Brussels aboard a chartered aircraft however he has didn't do so.
Mr Arhin brushed off the claims and similarly stated that unashamedly, Mr Ablakwa has refused to make point out of it, not to mention apologise for it.
“Again, after being stuck out at the Accra-Brussels-Kigali lie, the Honourable Member of Parliament attempts to justify the so-called “21-hour” price of the flight with a few voodoo charges. What is shocking, in his Friday declaration, is the admission of the reality that he does now no longer realize for a reality the price of the charter.
“The so-called €480,000 price he's bandying approximately is the end result of wager work, and at the reliance of a 'beneficiant 21-hour price analysis'. He gives no proof or documentary evidence by any means to lower back up his €480,000 price declare, due to the fact he has none. Once again, it's miles apparent that the Honourable Ablakwa reveals those assaults at the President to be his pathway to political prominence via terrible propaganda, and is decided to pursue this course, irrespective of how ridiculous and insulting his statements are.
“He similarly states that, if Brussels Airport become closed because of the strike, President Akufo-Addo should have arrived in Kigali “via the many (other) busy transit routes”, as an instance Paris. For Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the President, sitting in a restaurant on the educate station in Paris, with nearly no authentic protection round him, and ready to board a educate, is of no moment. The State owes it a responsibility to be fussy approximately those things, despite the fact that the President might not be fussy approximately them.
“Is it suitable to Hon. Ablakwa that the President can not attend engagements that he's spending his precious time to make due to the fact connecting flights get cancelled? Or that he has to attend round airports due to the fact flights had been delayed? Or, as passed off in his final ride, he arrives at his vacation spot from an in a single day flight with none baggage of his arriving with him, such that he can not actually have a extrade of garments to make the appointment he travelled for withinside the first place? It is a disgrace that an honourable Member of Parliament has no regard, by any means, for the safety and protection of his President.”
Mr Arhin, in advance indicated that President Akufo-Addo travelled to Brussels on a industrial way of transport.
First of all, Mr Arhin explained, President Akufo-Addo travelled from Accra to Paris on Sunday, June 19 on a industrial flight.
He stated even the Air France flight made a stopover in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso earlier than intending to the French capital.
“In reality, all of President Akufo-Addo's 12-member delegation travelled industrial,” Mr Arhin stated withinside the declaration on Friday, June 24.
“Upon arrival in Paris, President Akufo-Addo and his delegation travelled thru educate to Brussels to wait the European Development Days event, where, on Tuesday, twenty first June 2022, he become a keynote speaker, and later held conferences with the President of European Investment Bank on key concern areas.”
The declaration admitted that the president's subsequent ride on Sunday, June 26 could be through the usage of the Presidential Jet.
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