The Roads and Transport Committee of Parliament has demanded that the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) furnishes it with details of the agreement between McDan Aviation and GACL within a week.

According to the Ranking Member on the Roads and Transport Committee, Kwame Agbodza, facts available to the Committee show a consistent breach of the agreement by McDan Aviation yet, the GACL did not raise alarm until the launch of the private jet service.

 “So far, from what I have heard, I doubt this is all about breaches by McDan because the Ministries and the Agencies appear to have operated with McDan all this while so what actually changed on that Friday…I have more than 14 letters here between Ghana Airports and Civil Aviation, not a single one was about to say we do not like what you are doing except for that 31^st inauguration letter and so this tells me that perhaps there is something that we are not being told,” he said.

Speaking to the media on Friday in Parliament, the Adaklu Member of Parliament said it is prudent for the Committee to be given details of the agreement for further discussion.

“We told them within a week, the Ministry must go back and sit with the agencies and McDan to get us details of what they are going to do. If they are going to terminate the contract, we want to know within a week,” he noted.

He added that the Roads and Transport Ministry must be faulted for failing to supervise the contract agreement between GACL and McDan.

Meanwhile, the Transport Ministry has hinted at plans to sanction McDan Aviation for defying the orders of the Ghana Airports Company Limited over the launch of a Private Jet Service at KIA Terminal 1 without the requisite license.

According to a member of the Roads and Transport Committee, Yussif Jajah, the Transport Minister, Kweku Ofori Asiamah revealed this when he was summoned over the controversies surrounding the operation of McDan Aviation. 

“As we speak now, he doesn’t have the license and he’s still now going through the process to acquire it. The Minister says he is going to sanction McDan Aviation, at least for defying their orders, and what have you, so a meeting would start next week to see to that,” he told the media on Thursday, January 3.

This follows the order by GACL for the newly launched McDan Aviation to suspend its use of the Terminal 1 at Kotoka International Airport (KIA) until further notice.

In a letter signed on January 31, by the Managing Director of the Airports Company, Yaw Kwakwa, GACL stated that “we note with concern your failure to comply with the directive despite the outstanding issues on the prior terms and conditions for the use and operations of Terminal 1 as a Private Jet Terminal.”

“Management has consequently directed the suspension of your use of Terminal 1 until further notice.”

The suspension comes after McDan launched its Aviation services.

The airport authorities said the McDan Group undertook some activities without approval.

However, despite the GACL directive to call off the event, the company went ahead to hold the ceremony last Friday which led to its suspension.