The GaDangme Council of Asafoiatsɛmɛi and Nyɛmɛi has called on the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) to consider the direct and indirect negative impact of their litigation with MacDan Aviation Limited.
The council said the decision by the GACL to disengage MacDan Aviation Limited from services it renders at Terminal One of the Accra International Airport due to its alleged indebtedness over a period to it should be settled amicably instead of through litigation.
The Council, in a press conference, said, “One may ask why the Asafoiatsɛmɛi/Nyɛmɛi are holding a presser in the circumstances for MacDan, and the answer is ensured in the fact that about 300 members of our group are employees of the company all over the country, while the remainder of about 500 are sustained every month by the magnanimity of the managing director by the payment of stipends into our kitty.”
“It may interest you to note that the various traditional stools/councils that are supposed to fend for our livelihoods, especially Accra-Tema, have empty coffers,” the council said.
The council added that “proposals to companies in Tema to close their leases to make it mandatory for lessees to pay ground rents to the stools to facilitate our well-being are overlooked with the contempt they do not deserve while the stools grow poorer and poorer and so cannot cater for us”.
“Why is dismissal of MacDan the only resort because of its indebtedness when Ghana, in contrast, is allowed to renegotiate rather than be dismissed from the IMF or the Bretton Woods institutions’ membership? This analogy emphasises that Jubilee House must intervene to resolve the issue once more, as the Akuffo-Addo regime did when a similar attempt by Ghana Airport Company Limited was proposed three years ago.”
The GaDangme Council of Asafoiatsɛmɛi and Nyɛmɛi noted that “MacDan Aviation has faced these threats of dismissal too frequently. In our candid view, the competition for Terminal One has become intense and unjustifiable, and care must be taken to ensure it does not turn foul, as MacDan, for the second time in three years, has had to call on his tribesmen and women from the two major political parties to assist in restoring fairness.”
“From the scratch in its unrefined form, he observed opportunity in the ruins of the abandonment of Terminal One and had it rejuvenated in 2016 to become viable, which has become the envy of a lot of Ghanaian business magnates to own and operate,” the council added.
The council said, ‘The disadvantage is that he comes from a background of the stock of the minority Ga tribe, whose land, language and placement in the political and business landscape of the nation are minute and, as a result, held in contempt, though imbued with wonder and hospitality as a people whose main land is subjugated to massive industry without corresponding compensation and respect for its existence and authority.”
“We demand fair play in all spheres of national life, be it politics, academia, industry, sports or what have you, that are accorded all other tribes, and are as a result arranging to meet the GARHC, elders in the Ga State, and MPs (old and new) of GaDangme extraction to place all matters affecting our existence and livelihoods in perspective and circumspection to curtail these issues of selective injustice and isolationism of a great tribe of Ghana whose heroes – Sgt Adjetey and L. Cpl Odartey Lamptey – sparked the light to our eventual independence as a great country (nation).”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
