Charles Asare chairs 10-member taskforce to establish new national airline

A erstwhile Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited, Charles Asare, has been appointed president of a 10-member taskforce inaugurated by the Transport Minister, Joseph Bukari Nikpe, to make a concern exemplary and operational model for Ghana’s projected caller nationalist airline.

Other members see Twumasi Ankrah Selby (Vice Chairman), Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare (Managing Director, GACL), and aviation manufacture experts Hugh Tamakloe, Benjamin Ahlijah, and Patricia Bonsu, arsenic good arsenic Rev. Stephen Arthur, Director-General of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority.

The remainder are Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari, a erstwhile Director-General (Technical) of GACL, Mr. Daniel Acquah, and a typical from the Ministry of Transport.

According to the Transport Minister, the enactment and consequent inauguration of the taskforce signifier portion of the government’s efforts to revamp the country’s aviation assemblage and presumption Ghana arsenic a starring aerial transport hub successful West Africa.

At the inauguration ceremonial connected Wednesday, May 7, 2025, the Transport Minister reaffirmed the John Dramani Mahama-led government’s committedness to establishing a viable, efficient, and sustainable nationalist bearer to heighten determination connectivity and economical growth.

“We person facilities astatine our nationalist airport, and different airlines are taking vantage of them. It is lone due that, arsenic a people, we payment from these advantages.

We are the gateway to Africa, and we are positioning ourselves to go the aviation hub of the continent. We cannot execute this without participating successful the industry. For this reason, the President has constituted this squad to guarantee we vie efficaciously and instrumentality vantage of the facilities we person worked truthful hard to make implicit the years.

Our imaginativeness arsenic a authorities and arsenic the Ministry of Transport is to marque Ghana a proscription hub, whether by air, sea, oregon road. We expect you to play a cardinal relation successful connecting radical wrong the sub-region and beyond,” Mr. Bukari Nikpe explained.

Speaking connected behalf of the taskforce, Mr. Asare pledged the team’s unwavering committedness to ensuring the palmy realization of the nationalist airline.

The Chair of the taskforce expressed their willingness to enactment diligently to make a robust concern model.

“The imaginativeness is precise wide to us, and the task up is good defined. I person worked with immoderate members of the squad before, and I tin accidental that we person the close skills and acquisition to present this dream,” helium added.