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Excepting all chances, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will commission the Sunyani Airport for homegrown flight activity to start this year, Mr. Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transport has declared.
The Minister said the main period of the restoration and extension of the air terminal was essentially finished, saying the president would likewise play out an earth shattering function for work to start on the task's subsequent stage.
Mr. Asiamah gave the declaration when he examined the advancement of work on the office in Sunyani on Tuesday.
He was joined by Mr. Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Mr. Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani East and a few senior authorities of the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).
Mr. Asiamah said he was exceptionally dazzled with the work done as such far, especially on the runway, and lauded the workers for hire for the great work.
He communicated stress over the degree of infringement on the air terminal's property, saying conversations were continuous between the GACL, GACC, customary specialists and the encroachers to assist with settling what is happening.
Mr. Asiamah forewarned home engineers, people, and all potential land purchasers to be careful all together not to infringe on the leftover land at the Airport.
Lady Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister made sense of the charging of the office would open up the locale and prod quick financial development and improvement.
She said it was generally furious for individuals in the locale to venture out extended periods to Accra, and communicated the expectation that individuals would disparage the office to upgrade homegrown air transport.
The Regional Minister said she was hopeful that the office would be authorized for business flight activity in the following fourteen days, saying Passion and other homegrown aircrafts were all prepared to start tasks in Sunyani.
She accentuated the Bono Region had tremendous financial possibilities, saying flight tasks would open up the provincial capital, support monetary exercises, and prod fast financial development and improvement.
The Sunyani Airport was initially developed as an Airstrip and later redesigned into an air terminal in 1969. It at present has a complete runway length of around 1,520.
In 2015, GACL and the GCAA shut down the air terminal as a prudent step to prevent any calamity.
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