{"id":81249,"date":"2015-01-11T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81249"},"modified":"2015-01-12T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:17:01","slug":"buildings-within-airport-enclave-likely-pulled-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=81249","title":{"rendered":"Illegal buildings in Airport enclave to be demolished if…- Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some buildings within the airport enclave may have to be demolished, the Ministry of Transport has revealed.<\/p>\n

The decision to pull down buildings within the enclave follows the crash-landing of a cargo plane at the Kotoka International Airport(KIA).<\/p>\n

The Ministry will said pending the outcome of a report on the accident, some buildings may go down if their locations threaten aviation security.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”iUZisEzfODysWmv4wRQzYO2i587ahGBi”]According to the Ministry, a taskforce has already been established to identify all illegal structures that fall within the demarcated airport security zone.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, the Deputy Minister of Transport, Joyce Mogtari said the objective of the exercise is to safeguard airport lands in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have invited National Security to form a task force. This is a taskforce that is actually going to go around and collapse certain buildings because there have been complaints that some of these buildings appear to be in the flight path<\/p>\n

“First and foremost we are going to do an assessment of all these properties so when they have gone round and made assessment of all these buildings , what will happen is that a formal report containing whatever recommendations that we have will be submitted to the Minister of Transport for further action to be taken.”<\/p>\n

An Ethiopian cargo plane which came into the country from Lome [Togo] crash-landed at the KIA<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>in Accra on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

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According to the Corporate Communications Officer of Ghana Airport Company, Newman Quartey the plane \u201cskidded off the runway\u201d while trying to land safely.<\/p>\n

Though the cause of the accident is not yet known, some have\u00a0attributed it to bad weather conditions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has begun investigation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>s into circumstances that led to the crash-landing of an Ethiopian cargo plane at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghanna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some buildings within the airport enclave may have to be demolished, the Ministry of Transport has revealed. The decision to pull down buildings within the enclave follows the crash-landing of a cargo plane at the Kotoka International Airport(KIA). The Ministry will said pending the outcome of a report on the accident, some buildings may go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-81249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}