Special Aide to former President John Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has questioned why the new Board Chairman for the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) was not sanctioned over the purchase of Christmas decorations for the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).

She believes Mr. Paul Adom-Otchere should have been sacked or made to face the full rigours of the law in the same manner the Managing Director of the Company has been dismissed.

Though it is unknown what caused the dismissal of Yaw Kwakwa, people have suggested it may be partly due to the back and forth between GACL and the newly established private jet company by McDan Aviation.

But in an interview on Prime Morning, Thursday, she told Host, Emefa Adeti that “there is a certain favouritism for few as against the others. It almost appears as if we are focusing more on the minors and ignoring the majors.”

“In the same window of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, we heard over Christmas how without following any procurement processes, the newly-appointed Board Chairman, Paul Adom-Otchere, had actually gone out there to procure at a certain exorbitant cost Christmas decorations for the Airport facility.”

“He was not sanctioned, he wasn’t sacked. I think there is enormous unfairness in this system today, there is a certain inequity that is breeding into our body politic, but I have no reason to believe that it is anything personal,” she noted.

Earlier in January 2021, Paul Adom-Otchere was accused of extravagant expenditure on Christmas decorations at the Kotoka International Airport.

It will be recalled that following the leakage of an invoice on the purchase of Christmas decorations at KIA, scores of Ghanaians took to social media to condemn the costs involved.

According to them, the quoted figures, were outrageous, thus an indication of wastage on the part of the company.

In a response to the claims, the GACL Board Chairman said he exhibited propriety in the purchase of the products for the yuletide in December 2021.

“We didn’t use this invoice, and people have gone around and talked about the cost on this invoice being the cost of the inspirations. That is totally wrong because this invoice is the one that has four Christmas trees for GH¢84,000”, he said on Tuesday, January 11, 2022.

This, he said, made the cost for the Christmas inspirations, far lower than what was spent in 2016 on just Terminal 2.

“In 2016, the spending on Christmas tree inspirations was GH¢120,000, and this was at just one terminal. In 2021, GH¢128,366 is the total amount of money that was spent on two terminals; terminal 2 and terminal 3,” he said on Good Evening Ghana.

However, Joyce Bawah Mogtari believes Paul Adom-Otchere was shelved and not dealt with appropriately.