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这种轻型飞机主要是用来做救灾和农田喷洒。
Ghana To Assemble Light Aircraft
The Ministry of Aviation is collaborating with a foreign aircraft manufacturing company, Wasp Incorporated, to manufacture and assemble light aircraft in the country for the local training of pilots.
The light aircraft apart from being used in training pilots could be used in disaster management to rescue people from floods, distribute relief items, as well as for spraying farms.
Miss Gloria Akuffo, Minister of Aviation, who announced this at her ministry‘s turn of the Meet-the-Press in Accra yesterday, said four of the light aircraft had been assembled in the Eastern Region while four others were in the process of being assembled.
She said the benefits to be derived from manufacturing the aircraft locally were enormous, since Ghana spent a lot of foreign exchange to train pilots abroad.
She said with Ghana striking oil in commercial quantities there was the likelihood that a new international airport would be built in Accra to replace the present one, which is constrained by space because of the residential areas that are encroaching on the lands of Civil Aviation.
She further explained that the Ghana International Airline Limited intended to acquire a passenger airline of its own and that would also entail the training of more pilots to meet its expanding activities.
She said Ghana presently had been demoted from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Category 1 status to Category 2 because the national carrier had no aircraft of its own but operated on leased aircraft.
She said notwithstanding that the Ministry of Aviation had intensified in-house and external training and general capacity building in safety and security oversight activities.
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Ghana Aviation Company Limited (GACL) in collaboration with the security agencies had successfully concluded a mock search and rescue operation for aircraft accident on sea to show the combat readiness of the two agencies in times of accidents.
On terrorism and drug-related offences, the minister said the ministry was in the process of acquiring cargo scanners to help in the detection of cargo that had drugs and other contraband goods concealed in them.
She said operation Westbridge, undertaken at the airport in collaboration with the United Kingdom, had led to the arrest of many drug barons who intended using the airport as a transit point.
She explained that the drug menace was a trans-border problem and Ghana was working with neighbouring countries to assist in trailing and arresting culprits in the illicit trade.
Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, who addressed the press earlier on what he described as the new approach of doing things, said his ministry had abandoned the old defensive approach for an offensive approach.
He said by this offensive approach his ministry was going to come out with all the good news for Ghanaians to judge for themselves.
He said for example that a newly qualified Ghanaian teacher in 2001 could use his salary of GH?6.45 to buy only 93 kilos of rice as against GH?94.08 that could buy 293 kilos of rice in 2008.
Mr Asamoah said these were some of the good news in Ghana that ought to reach everyone and from now on he was going to cross the length and breadth of this country with more of this comparison in order for Ghanaians to make an informed choice and not succumb to propaganda. |
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