Renaming Kotoka Airport: History, cost, and how far Ghana has come

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• Kofi Ghanaba 1 month ago

  Some people in government are going to make millions of dollars.

  Some people in government are going to make millions of dollars.

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• Oooooooo 1 month ago

  The brains that gave birth to the obliteration of Kotoka's name from the universe have also erected an imposing statue of J.J. Rawlings. Hmmmm, an ecenomic equivalence of the national cathedral. 3da h) a 3b3 nyin dabi.

  The brains that gave birth to the obliteration of Kotoka's name from the universe have also erected an imposing statue of J.J. Rawlings. Hmmmm, an ecenomic equivalence of the national cathedral. 3da h) a 3b3 nyin dabi.

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• Nana Adusei 1 month ago

  You have a good case. Cost implications for the name change should be considered, especially at this point where our health care infrastructures are crumbling.

  You have a good case. Cost implications for the name change should be considered, especially at this point where our health care infrastructures are crumbling.

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• Fire for fire 1 month ago

  Nana Edusei, I agree with you totally on your assertion: cost implication for the name change. On how Ghana is going to bear the cost ? The answer is simple: confiscate and repatriate all the stolen billions stashed in off-sh ...
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  Nana Edusei, I agree with you totally on your assertion: cost implication for the name change. On how Ghana is going to bear the cost ? The answer is simple: confiscate and repatriate all the stolen billions stashed in off-shore accounts and banks around the globe of ,Ken Ofori Atta; Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo; John Agyekum Kuffour; Mahamadu Bawumia and co.
  And Ghana will be fine.
  I expect the John Dramani Mahama's Govt. to go full throttle; enlist the assistance of the FBI and the Marshall Services of the United States in tracking down and to repossess all the stolen, hidden billions of these economic and financial leeches who are quietly and silently enjoying their loot
  Lastly but certainly not the least: I suggest a decree be inscribed somewhere in the Constitution that will make it an offence punishable by "public execution" of any public servant who dips his or her dirty hands into the Nation's coffers
  Let us put democracy aside and "do our own thing" because the so- called democracy is ruining Black Africa. This is my story and am sticking to it

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• Fromtomfrom 1 month ago

  The moral imperative outweighs everything, Mr Fianu!
  And it is a bloody shame that you choose to make a non-ethical premise for your position.
  But very well, if you want to have an economics-based discourse on the name-cha ...
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  The moral imperative outweighs everything, Mr Fianu!
  And it is a bloody shame that you choose to make a non-ethical premise for your position.
  But very well, if you want to have an economics-based discourse on the name-change issue, have you in all fairness calculated the emotional suffering the survivors of Major-General Charles Barwah have gone through and what that translates into financial compensation? Imagine, Mr Fianu, that you were a tender, young boy in the early hours of February 24th, 1966. Gunshots woke you up. That was your father's security guards, approximately 7 in number, being executed one by one by Kotoka and his entourage. Kotoka then proceeds to enter your family home and after a very brief argument with your father, he shoots him point-blank, in cold blood, in the terrified presence of your mother and siblings! How much financial cost has that trauma been to you as the little boy for half a century?
  
  General Barwah committed no crime. He was a soldier's soldier! Do bother to check his accomplishments at Sandhurst Military Academy in England. But his greatest professional and most noble act was refusing to go against his sworn oath to defend the constitution of Ghana by joining Kotoka's illegal and treasonous enterprise on February 24th, 1966!
  
  Other crimes of murder took place that shameful day. But for brevity's sake, we will ignore that.
  
  Now lets get to the simple question of what we should honour Kotoka for?
  Is it the heinous murder of General Charles Barwah?
  Is it the treasonous act of being a regime-change mercenary for a foreign power to the tune of millions of dollars?
  Is it the violation of his military oath to defend the constitution of the republic?
  
  On that last question, Mr Fianu, I will proffer the response that a democracy has no business honouring a coup-maker!

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• Nsia 1 month ago

  Which country on planet earth honours a traitor. And, it is a fact without apology that Emmanuel Kotoka was a traitor.Can you imagine Norwegians naming their airport after Quisling?
  The financial implication is the biggest ...
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  Which country on planet earth honours a traitor. And, it is a fact without apology that Emmanuel Kotoka was a traitor.Can you imagine Norwegians naming their airport after Quisling?
  The financial implication is the biggest bullcrap from a PhD sophist and embellisher.Dr, stick that piffle where it belongs! Gold Coast to Ghana, cost implications, absolute tosh! It was done!
  In my considered opinion , the name should have been "Kwame Nkrumah International Airport".
  There are several countries in South America who list Simon Bolivar, as their "Sole Founder" In fact, Bolivia is even named afer him. They are: Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. Yes, he is the "Sole Founder" of all these countries.
  Lastly, I do not buy the crap from "Ga' people that the airport is on their land. It was built with money from Cocoa, Coffee, Diamond, Bauxite, Manganese, Timber , Rubɓer etc . Which of these vital natural resouces comes ftom Greater Accra Region? None!

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• JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

  That airport must revert to its former name of Accra International Airport. You raise the issue of cost. The cost to rename that airport will not be significant. Even President Akufo-Addo's senseless renaming of many institut ...
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  That airport must revert to its former name of Accra International Airport. You raise the issue of cost. The cost to rename that airport will not be significant. Even President Akufo-Addo's senseless renaming of many institutions did not amount to a significant cost. Many past administrations heard many cries for that airport to be renamed, but they did not have the guts of sincerity to act on those cries for a renaming. The renaming must be done, now than later. There never was a justification for naming that airport after Kotoka, a major player in Ghana's first coup. Its' hypocritical for anyone person to claim to be against coups but then stand in support of naming the nation's main airport in honour of a coup-maker. Ghana has been on the wrong path of a journey by naming that airport after a coup-maker, and no matter how far one has gone in the wrong direction, refusing to reverse course on a known mistake is far worse than the initial mistake. The time to rename the airport is long overdue, and now is the time to act.

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• ASIEDU NKWASIA 1 month ago

  NDC HAVE FAILED. RE-NAMING KOTOKA MEANS NOTHING BUT EVEN DEBT, CHANGING AIRPORT CODE, INTERGRATING INTO AATA RULES, ETC
  WORK TO IMPROVE COCOA FARMERS WELFARE AND STOP BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH!!

  NDC HAVE FAILED. RE-NAMING KOTOKA MEANS NOTHING BUT EVEN DEBT, CHANGING AIRPORT CODE, INTERGRATING INTO AATA RULES, ETC
  WORK TO IMPROVE COCOA FARMERS WELFARE AND STOP BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH!!

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• JULOR CAESAR 1 month ago

  Oh no, it's the NPP that failed. The NPP government of Akufo-Addo spent eight years renaming every institution in sight, yet refused to rename the Koup International Airport. Can you explain why the NPP government saw it it f ...
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  Oh no, it's the NPP that failed. The NPP government of Akufo-Addo spent eight years renaming every institution in sight, yet refused to rename the Koup International Airport. Can you explain why the NPP government saw it it fit to prosecute people that it suspected of plotting a coup against the Akufo-Addo NPP government but chose to leave in place the name "Kotoka International Airport" even though Kotoka was a leader of the very first coup in Ghana? The NPP failed miserably by pretending to be against coups but tacitly glorifying coup-maker Kotoka, all because the UP/PP/NPP parties were the real faces hiding behind the coup that Kotoka and his fellow National liberation Council members staged in 1966. That Koup International Airport must revert to its original name, Accra International Airport.

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• Nsia 1 month ago

  We will change the narrative with real hustorical facts and expose the evil deeds of the Odious Danquah Busia Crap.
  This was their idea of democracy after Nkrumah the Legend thumoed them in the 1951& 1954 elections.
  Read..
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  We will change the narrative with real hustorical facts and expose the evil deeds of the Odious Danquah Busia Crap.
  This was their idea of democracy after Nkrumah the Legend thumoed them in the 1951& 1954 elections.
  Read..
  Did the NLM bomb Kwame nkrumah house in 1955
  
  
  
  Yes, on November 10, 1955, a bomb exploded at the residence of Kwame Nkrumah, who was then the Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (prior to Ghana's independence), while he was at home working.
  Key Details of the 1955 Attack:
  Attributed Perpetrators: The attack is widely attributed to members or supporters of the National Liberation Movement (NLM), an opposition party based in Ashanti that sought to oppose the Convention People's Party (CPP).
  Context: This was part of a broader campaign of violence and political tension in the mid-1950s between the NLM and Nkrumah's CPP.
  Other Attacks: The NLM was accused of several other violent acts during this period, including attacks on the homes of other CPP officials, such as Krobo Edusei.
  This 1955 incident was one of the early attempts to undermine or assassinate Nkrumah, pre-dating the infamous Kulungugu bombing attempt in 1962.

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