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AKUFO-ADDO SETS TO COMMISSION SUNYANI AIRPORT

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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 reported.

The Minister said the principal period of the restoration and extension of the air terminal was for all intents and purposes finished, saying the president would likewise play out a notable service for work to start on the venture's subsequent stage.

Mr. Asiamah gave the declaration when he assessed 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 profoundly dazzled with the work done as such far, especially on the runway, and complimented the project workers 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 designers, people, and all potential land purchasers to be cautious all together not to infringe on the leftover land at the Airport.

Lady Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister made sense of the authorizing of the office would open up the district and spike fast financial development and improvement.

She said it was consistently chaotic for individuals in the area to venture out extended periods of time to Accra, and communicated the expectation that individuals would disparage the office to improve homegrown air transport.

The Regional Minister said she was hopeful that the office would be appointed for business flight activity in the following fourteen days, saying Passion and other homegrown aircrafts were all prepared to start tasks in Sunyani.

She underscored the Bono Region had enormous financial possibilities, saying flight tasks would open up the provincial capital, support monetary exercises, and spike fast financial development and improvement.

The Sunyani Airport was initially built as an Airstrip and later overhauled into an air terminal in 1969. It presently 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 fiasco.

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