[contextly_sidebar id=”vIyuIFAHQPhHDReZBvpAfjhMoXZhqFp7″]The Society\u00a0\u00a0also sued the GCCA , demanding that the court\u00a0prevent\u00a0them from operating, for overlooking, and or refusing to ensure that the other respondents comply with Section 28 (1) of the Persons with Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715).<\/p>\n
GSPD also sought\u00a0an interlocutory injunction against the three airlines not to deny such persons who desire to travel on their aircraft services, pending the determination of a substantive suit.<\/p>\n
The group had earlier stated that it\u00a0would”pursue the matter to its logical conclusion.”<\/p>\n
A member of the group, who spoke to Citi Business News,\u00a0<\/strong>Elivis Alikpui, at the time said: \u00a0 \u201cThe problem is we were discriminated against by our local airlines and we will sue them as we have done.<\/p>\n “I feel being discriminated against; I can also see that there is no possibility for we the persons with disability to be onboard domestic flights in the country to any part of Ghana and I feel discriminated against per the section 6 and 7 of the disability act 715 this case must be in court.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n However,\u00a0the Chief Operations Officer of African World Airlines, Apiigy Afenu, denied the accusations adding that the company is on record to have airlifted persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know why they included us in this lawsuit, because we are on record and the other airlines are also on record to have carried physically challenged passengers.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi & Norvan Acquah-Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The \u00a0Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) and the Africa World Airline (AWA) and the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD), have agreed to settle the discrimination case\u00a0out of court, reports indicate. The Disabled Society dragged three local airlines Antrak Air, Starbow Airlines and Africa World Airlines to court for discriminating against persons with disabilities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"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":[2],"tags":[23,4],"class_list":["post-82947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-kwesi-annin","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82947","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Africa-World-Airlines-Aircraft-620x330\"](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Africa-World-Airlines-Aircraft-620x330.jpg\")
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