The Kotoka International Airport has seen an increase in passenger numbers after the construction of the terminal 3 at the airport.
This was disclosed by the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority as the Kotoka International Airport has become the prefered airport in the subregion.
Speaking to Joy FM, the Director-General of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, Engineer Simon Allotey said there have been an increase in passenger numbers and opening of terminal 3 is the major contributor to the increase.
"We've seen rapid improvement in passenger numbers, both domestically and internationally year on year figure of about 2.5 million passengers for domestic, the growth is even more significant we should end the year with around six to seven hundred thousand passengers which will be like a 30 to 40% increase over last years own, easily we expect over 3million passengers this year as compared to about 2.2 last year.."
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KIA Terminal 3 gets $30m oil money
About $30 million of the funding required for the construction of the newly built Terminal Three of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) was sourced from oil revenues.
The figure, which represents 12 per cent of the total funding of the $250 million project, was from the Annual Budget Funding Account's (ABFA’s) allocation to the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund's (GIIF’s) in 2016. The remaining was sourced from Africa Development Bank and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
The Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Stephen Manteaw, disclosed this at a workshop by the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) and German Development Corporation (GIZ) in Koforidua in the Eastern Region on February 16.
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He said the new terminal, which had become a tourist attraction for many travellers, received $30 million allocations from the oil proceeds.
"The newly built terminal three received $30 million from the oil proceeds through GIIF but most Ghanaians were yet to be informed about it. This is in spite of the fact that the facility was opened to the travelling public on September 15, 2018," he said.
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As a result, Dr Manteaw underscored the need for projects developed with oil proceeds to be labelled for Ghanaians to appreciate whether the oil proceeds were being utilised well or not.
"For us, labelling of projects that are being funded by proceeds from oil is critical for Ghanaians to appreciate how their resources are being used," he said.
Towards that end, he called on the government to provide PIAC with information on all physical infrastructural projects it intended to fund with petroleum revenue this year.
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