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‘Pull Down Illegal Buildings On Sunyani Airport Lands’

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April 5, 2021
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The minister (in helmet) being briefed by an official

MINISTER FOR Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has directed the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) to take immediate steps to pull down all private and commercial buildings sited on encroached Sunyani Airport lands.

He has further directed the GACL to ensure all buildings with silver roofing sheets that are closer to the Sunyani Airport are removed or replaced with roofing materials that meet Aviation standards.

Affected victims who fail to comply with this directive will also have their roofing sheets being removed.

The directive is expected to be carried before the project is completed by end of May, 2021. This is to ensure the safe arrival and departure of airplanes that will be using the Sunyani Airport facility.

According to the Transport Minister, the directives are not only meant to comply with Aviation standards but also to ensure the health safety of the people.

“We don’t want an accident to occur before they will come and say that we saw the building project and did not act,” he noted.

Mr. Asiamah made these observations when he paid a working visit to Sunyani in the Bono Region on Monday to inspect the rehabilitation of the Sunyani Airport project.

The Transport Minister was accompanied by the Acting Chief Director, Ministry of Transport, Ms. Mabel Sagoe; Director of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Transport, Madam Irene Messiba; Managing Director, GACL, Yaw Kwakwa; and some technical staff from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the ministry.

Commenting further, Mr. Asiamah said if an action was not taken to restore the encroached land, it would also affect future plans of the airport, thus, if they wanted to expand the facility.

Compensation Package

Asked whether the encroachers would be compensated, the Transport Minister answered in the negative.

“We will not give anybody compensation package, knowing that the land does not belong to them. It is wrong for them to come and build on government land – the land that we are going to use to build airport for the benefit of everybody in this country, particularly, for the people of Bono, you cannot come and build an individual house there hoping that government should come and compensate you. When the time comes, we will not compensate anybody,” he stressed.

Project within Schedule

Touching on the level of progress made on the project, Mr. Asiamah said “the contractor is on course and on time. I was afraid that maybe because of the COVID-19 they were going to have the issue of project overrun cost but the contractor has assured me that they are within time and have completed about 95% of the project. We are hoping that by the end of May, the project will be completed for the airlines to start flying there.”

Background

Since 2015, no plane has been able to land at the Sunyani airport as a result of damages on the runaway.

Even though the then government secured $400 million loan facility from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to construct terminal 3 and other airport projects, priority was not given to that of the Sunyani Airport, therefore, abandoning the runaway to further deteriorate.

On June 25, 2019, government signed a contract agreement with Messrs Resources Access Limited (RAL) for the Rehabilitation of the Sunyani Airport at an estimated cost GH₵48,694,733.69. The consultant to the project is Engineering Services Provision Company Limited (ESPCo).

The project, with a nine-month timeline, was expected to have commenced on October 25, 2019 and completed on July 24, 2020.

However, the contract period was revised, making the duration 17 months. The project is expected to be completed by end May, 2021.



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