Mahama commends GACL for development projects

President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday commended the Board and Management team of the Ghana Airports Company Limited for the great strides they had made in the aviation sector in the past years.

He said the projects they had executed was due mainly to the policy direction of the Ministry of Transport and the exhibition of high level of confidence of the Board that had fallen in line with transformational agenda of the government.

President Mahama announced this when he addressed the third annual general meeting of the Ghana Airports Company Limited in Accra.

The meeting was aimed at receiving the Chairman's report, receive the Managing Director's report and to receive and consider the financial statements of the Company for the end of the year.

It was attended by Ministers of State, the business community and representatives of some airlines.

President Mahama, who earlier on inspected the expansion projects at the Kotoka International Airport, said two more terminals would soon be completed to make passengers more comfortable.

He said apart from the new terminals, two more baggage carousels were also under construction, with CCTV cameras situated in all the vantage areas of the airport.

The President said two new lifts and escalators were also being fitted in to ease movement in the international airport, where six boarding bridges are expected to be constructed to standardise the airport.

He explained that the projects were being undertaken by government through funding from the company and not from any of the loans that government had contracted.

President Mahama called on the company to step up their customer services to portray the traditional Ghanaian hospitality to the passengers that would be using their facilities throughout the country.

Mrs Dzifa Attivor, the Minister of Transport, said all the Departments and Agencies under her Ministry would work hard to transform the airports to deliver on government's transformational agenda.