According to a response to an urgent question filed by the North Tongu MP regarding a luxurious private jet President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo hired at GH¢2.8 million for his foreign trips, the Defence and Finance Ministers are expected to answer the question the MP has filed.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stated on his Facebook timeline hinted that “President in his recent trip abroad hired a private jet for £15,000 per hour.”
He continued that per his calculation, President Akufo-Addo spent about GH¢2.8 million on the trip instead of using the presidential jet.He filed questions in parliamenton the issue which have been admitted by the speaker.
Ablakwa furthermore wrote that it is outrage and a blatant betrayal for Ghana to own a presidential aircraft in perfect working condition which was ordered by President Kufuor, used by President Mills and President Mahama; and yet President Akufo-Addo chooses to charter a top-of-the-range luxury aircraft offered by Acropolis Aviation” .
“The Airbus ACJ320neo owned by Acropolis Aviation based in Farnborough, UK, and registered as G-KELT is the most luxurious and the most expensive in the Acropolis fleet. The manufacturers describe it as ‘the most outstanding ambassador for Airbus Corporate Jets… It costs the Ghanaian taxpayer approximately £15,000 an hour when President Akufo-Addo rents it.”
“Let’s further analyze President Akufo-Addo’s latest trip to Europe: per Flightradar24, the G-KELT aircraft left Accra with the President to Paris on the 16th of May — a 6 and half-hour duration. Airlifted the President from Paris to Johannesburg for 11 hours on the 23rd of May. Then Johannesburg to Accra on the 25th of May was a five and half-hour flight.
This gives us accumulated flight travel of 23 hours; so at £15,000 an hour, it thus cost us a colossal £345,000. At the current exchange, that is a staggering ¢2,828,432.80,” his post read further.
Dominic Nitiwul and Ken Ofori-Atta,Defence and Finance Ministers respectively, per the business statement of the House this week are expected in Parliament on Wednesday and Thursday to respond to a question from Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on “whether the Presidential Jet (Dassault Falcon-9G-EXE) is in good condition and considered air-worthy” as well as “how much the President’s recent official travels to France, Belgium, and South Africa in May this year, cost the Ghanaian taxpayer”
Source : itvghana
