Renaming Kotoka International Airport: A misplaced priority Ghana must firmly reject

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Senyo 1 month ago

This name change is long overdue, period!!!

This name change is long overdue, period!!!
NAME IT AFTER ISSAH KAJANGA OR NII TACKIE 1 month ago

NAME IT AFTER NII TACKIE OR ISSAH KANJANGA

NAME IT AFTER NII TACKIE OR ISSAH KANJANGA
JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

That airport must be renamed in honour of Ebo Noah, a Ghanaian patriot building arks that will be used to ferry Ghanaians to safety on Detty December, 2026 as Ghana gets swallowed by the Accra Sea. Welcome, travelers, to ENIA ...
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That airport must be renamed in honour of Ebo Noah, a Ghanaian patriot building arks that will be used to ferry Ghanaians to safety on Detty December, 2026 as Ghana gets swallowed by the Accra Sea. Welcome, travelers, to ENIA (Ebo Noah International Airport).
my eyes everywhere. 1 month ago

just to create & loote old system inflate cost on Ghana in the name of we changed the airport name. Is that name change inclusive in the 24hr economy ndc party leaders promised its citizens? or a new campaign message for 2028 ...
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just to create & loote old system inflate cost on Ghana in the name of we changed the airport name. Is that name change inclusive in the 24hr economy ndc party leaders promised its citizens? or a new campaign message for 2028 elections?.18 tons of gold in 3 months missing i will talk on that later. Ghanaians citizens 21/22nd centuries onwards deserves better not only yours. Again, you Ghanaian citizens should stop too much deepending on the high class asking money etc,etc, any monent you meet them you are part of the messes later blame on them. will come back again.
SS 1 month ago

Create Loot and share? What we saw the past 8 years was create, pillage ,share and run away like a coward. Tell your former finance minister to come to the country and face the alledged corruption charges and then come again ...
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Create Loot and share? What we saw the past 8 years was create, pillage ,share and run away like a coward. Tell your former finance minister to come to the country and face the alledged corruption charges and then come again with your JANDAM
sebastian Bonsu 1 month ago

Greetings to you all,
As a Pan-Africanism, airports have been named after great men such as Julius nyerere of Tanzania, knyomo kenyata of Kenya,etc. all these gallant men fought for their countries and against colonialism at ...
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Greetings to you all,
As a Pan-Africanism, airports have been named after great men such as Julius nyerere of Tanzania, knyomo kenyata of Kenya,etc. all these gallant men fought for their countries and against colonialism at large.And the greatest of all these men was Kwame Nkrumah Africans man of the century is to have name on an international airport in his own country must be a problem? should this be a problem or a welcome news?
Iddrisu M Tanko. PhD 1 month ago

The writer is only sounding regionalistic, but even the Volta region would not want to be associated with coup makers. Kotoka is a dent on the Development of Ghana. hE HIMSELF IS ALLEGED TO HAVE REGRETED the collective actio ...
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The writer is only sounding regionalistic, but even the Volta region would not want to be associated with coup makers. Kotoka is a dent on the Development of Ghana. hE HIMSELF IS ALLEGED TO HAVE REGRETED the collective action to overthrow Nkrumah.
SS 1 month ago

Misplaced Priorities? Check the cost of the cathedral pit & come again, you hypocritical writer- THAT IS MISPLACED PRIORITY. The Airport name will be changed to its Original name-PERIOD. Long overdue

Misplaced Priorities? Check the cost of the cathedral pit & come again, you hypocritical writer- THAT IS MISPLACED PRIORITY. The Airport name will be changed to its Original name-PERIOD. Long overdue
E.K. 1 month ago

I just wasted my 5 minutes reading gibberish. You never made a single intelligent point. All you did was "i'm from a particular region so keep the name of a national traitor on a national edifice" This should have been done d ...
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I just wasted my 5 minutes reading gibberish. You never made a single intelligent point. All you did was "i'm from a particular region so keep the name of a national traitor on a national edifice" This should have been done during the era of PNDC. Thank God JM has the sense to take this on
AOG 1 month ago

This isn't a misplaced priority, it's a national cleansing exercise; lets place Nkrumah's overthrow aside, then focus on the killing of innocent soldiers and civilians for virtually no wrongdoing during the coup.
Kotoka and ...
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This isn't a misplaced priority, it's a national cleansing exercise; lets place Nkrumah's overthrow aside, then focus on the killing of innocent soldiers and civilians for virtually no wrongdoing during the coup.
Kotoka and his cohorts are murderers and killers of national dreams. Karma served him right in 1967. Sam Arthur and Yeboah should rather be national heroes for taking down that murderer. They thought they killed Charles Bawa and that was it? never. Sixty years is enough, another generation must not grow to see the name of that man on a national edifice as important as the Prime Airport of our beloved Country.

pin 1 month ago

Nkrumah doesn’t deserve to have the airport named after him

Nkrumah doesn’t deserve to have the airport named after him
Benji 1 month ago

Who said anything about naming it after Nkrumah? Asking your own question and marking it, fool.

Who said anything about naming it after Nkrumah? Asking your own question and marking it, fool.
Che 1 month ago

Had Kotoka been alive, he would have faced the firing squad alongside Afrifa.
Across the globe, statues and monuments honoring traitors are being dismantled; Kotoka’s legacy should suffer the same fate.

Had Kotoka been alive, he would have faced the firing squad alongside Afrifa.
Across the globe, statues and monuments honoring traitors are being dismantled; Kotoka’s legacy should suffer the same fate.
......... 1 month ago

I do not agree with you. Change we must! Its long overdue.

I do not agree with you. Change we must! Its long overdue.
Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY.. 1 month ago

If we have to stay on course for the reset agenda in Ghana, many little things, according to this article must be done in unison. Most things must attract prioritization. This includes the overdue renaming of the Accra airpor ...
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If we have to stay on course for the reset agenda in Ghana, many little things, according to this article must be done in unison. Most things must attract prioritization. This includes the overdue renaming of the Accra airport. In fact as soon as the legislation is passed, the minister should mount a ladder and chisel that name off as a symbolic gesture for the damage Kotoka has caused Ghana and Africa. Just visit the industrial area in Accra and look at the silo that was abandoned after 1966, the silos at Tema, the abandoned glass manufacturing factory at Aboso, just to name a few. The name at the airport is a strangulation on the psyche and development of Ghana.
If it is named after Kwame Nkrumah, visitors will link it to the memorial park and recognize the significance of the role Osagyefo played.
JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

Your argument for maintaining that shameful honour of a coup-maker is patently flawed. That airport must be renamed, and the time for that is now. What a shame for a country that always stands against coups to have the countr ...
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Your argument for maintaining that shameful honour of a coup-maker is patently flawed. That airport must be renamed, and the time for that is now. What a shame for a country that always stands against coups to have the country's main airport named in honour of a leading member of the group that staged Ghana's first coup. You may view the plan to rename the airport as a misplacement priority, and you clearly do so for selfish reasons, but the renaming of the airport is the right thing for the nation. You've not stated a single convincing reason why the airport should remain named in honour of Kotoka. You've given no single major contribution that Kotoka made to Ghana that warrants the nation's main airport being named after him. You seem to be forgetting that the reason why the airport was named after him was to honour his death at the hands of counter-coup plotters, and that surely isn't a sound reason for an airport being named in honour of any person. Ghana made a mistake in naming that airport after Kotoka, and the number of years gone by should be no excuse for Ghana to refrain from righting that past wrong.
Tamale North Boy 1 month ago

NDC can always take Anls for granted. Period.

NDC can always take Anls for granted. Period.
Bonus Baba 1 month ago

You don't know know me. I don't give a rib. I am an Ewe. I was a Ghanaian before MAhama and all these knuckle heads came to power. I am advising you. NORTHER5. Accra is for Gas. Ayariga and Mahama, go and solve you NOR ...
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You don't know know me. I don't give a rib. I am an Ewe. I was a Ghanaian before MAhama and all these knuckle heads came to power. I am advising you. NORTHER5. Accra is for Gas. Ayariga and Mahama, go and solve you NORTHERN FUCKING PROBLEM. EWES ARE READY NOW . GO TO HELL WITH NDC. Your mama mbobo. Ayariga, ignorant bastard
Kidd Kusi 1 month ago

Very good arguments in favor of misplaced priorities. However the author’s warped presentation overlooks the traitorous actions of Kotoka. Declassified information provide all we need to know about the coup which happens t ...
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Very good arguments in favor of misplaced priorities. However the author’s warped presentation overlooks the traitorous actions of Kotoka. Declassified information provide all we need to know about the coup which happens to be an unlawful act in the first place. I will go a step further. Why not Kwame Nkrumah International Airport instead of just Accra International Airport. As has been pointed out elsewhere if Kotoka were alive he would have faced the firing squad with his co- conspirator Afrifa courtesy of the other murderous “Voltarian”
, the region whose important members the writer is appealing for their influence to block the name change. That gave the game away.
Eric Dee 1 month ago

The name change is well overdue. We have to do it
now.

The name change is well overdue. We have to do it
now.

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