Airport Workers Demonstrate Over alleged Attempts to Privatize Company

Workers of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) have embarked on a demonstration against government’s alleged plan to privatise the company.

The agitated staff claim the government, through the Aviation Ministry intends to hand over the company to a Turkish investor.

They said they will resist any attempt to allow that to happen.

The workers, in red attires and arm bands, staged the protest outside the premises of the company.

General Secretary of the Public Service Workers Union, Trades Union Congress, Bernard Adjei who led the workers to protest gave reasons for their action saying they will not relent on their efforts until the alleged privatization is halted.

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 “We have been confronted with such a situation. So, as responsible citizens of this country and a responsible union, we are using the structures and all the avenues and resources available to us to deal with this matter. There will be an engagement with the union for us to state our position on the matter. What we want to assure you is that we will not sit down and allow anything to be done at the detriment of workers”.

The Aviation Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda had earlier dismissed assertions that the Kotoka International Airport had been sold to a foreign entity.

He however noted that government was, deliberating with stakeholders including the GACL a proposed Strategic Partnership Arrangement between GACL and TAV-SUMMA Consortium to improve service delivery and expansion of infrastructure at the Airport.

This, he said, was to help achieve the Government’s vision of making Ghana the Aviation Hub within the West African Sub-Region.