Accra, Feb. 09, GNA – The appointment of Mr Yaw Kwakwa, Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has been terminated.
Mr Hassan Tampuli, Deputy Minister of Transport, confirmed Mr Kwakwa’s dismissal to journalists when Parliament’s Roads and Transport Committee inspected the McDan Aviation facility at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on Wednesday, February 09, 2022.
Mr Tampuli’s confirmation comes on the back of a leaked letter circulating in the media space suggesting that President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo Addo had terminated Mr Kwakwa’s appointment.
A letter dated February 04, 2022, signed by the Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Minister of Transport, and addressed to the Board Chairman of the GACL, directed the Company’s Board to take the necessary steps to give effect to the directive.
The letter did not indicate the reason for the termination of Mr Kwakwa’s appointment.
However, Mr Kwakwa, who was leading Parliament’s Transport Committee to inspect McDan Aviation’s facility, told journalists that he had not been informed about the termination of his appointment.
“I don’t know what you are talking about. My appointment has not been terminated so if you have any evidence… I don’t know about it,… but when I get to that bridge I will cross it,” he said.
Mr Kwakwa was appointed as MD of the GACL in 2019. He took over from Mr John Dekyem Attafuah, who was equally relieved of his duty after serving from 2017.
Mr Kwakwa served as Deputy MD of the GACL prior to his appointment as Acting MD and later confirmed as the substantive MD.
Mr Kwakwa’s administration had not been stable over the period following persistent agitations by staff of the GACL who had called for his removal from office.
In a petition to President Akufo-Addo through the Chief of Staff in 2020, the staff of GACL accused Mr Kwakwa of mismanagement and “lack of understanding of the critical Aviation Industry.”
The petition further accused him of, “refusal to implement several interview reports for over two years, and also outsourcing key aspects of the Company’s operations at exorbitant cost – notwithstanding the availability of in-house capacity.”
GNA