McDan Aviation, a private plane charter service operator, has refuted accusations of a $3 million debt to Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL).
The GACL has shut down the company’s private jet terminal at Kotoka International Airport, citing a $2 million debt. However, the corporation has rejected the media claims, stating that $2 million of the debt is connected to a piece of land purchased from GACL that is now being litigated.
McDan Group CEO Kweku Ampromfi informed Accra’s Channel One TV that the company has paid a portion of the unpaid terminal expenses and hopes that GACL will reopen the private aircraft terminal soon.
“We do not owe $3 million at the terminal. There are 3 things we have been in discussion with Ghana Airport Company. The tunnel is one, we also have a piece of land we acquired from them close to the Action Chapel area for which they demand grand rights.
“The bulk of what is supposedly owed them is cut from that but we have been in conversation with them because that land even though we acquired it from Ghana Airport, it is the third party that acquired the same land and got their documentation through the Lands Commission so it is under litigation.
“So we have told Ghana Airport Company, several times we have had conversations with them, that because it is under litigation, let’s suspend that for a moment until we clear the legal issues around it. The land is about $2 million thereabout.
“Until it is resolved in the court, it doesn’t make business sense for anybody to be paying any hefty sums of money. So we have had that conversation. We have communicated that several times to Ghana Airport,” he stated.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana