The Point of View<\/em> on Wednesday, March 4, Dr Thompson endorsed the decision and noted that the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) had long advocated for the change.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is the right decision the government finally made. The Convention People\u2019s Party had always advocated that. Some people had said it should be named after Nkrumah, but personally, I wasn\u2019t in favour of it. I think Nkrumah, to a large extent, is synonymous with Ghana. Nkrumah doesn\u2019t really need an airport named after him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Dr Thompson\u2019s remarks add to growing public discourse surrounding national monuments and historical memory.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Transport Ministry has assured the public that the name change will not affect airport operations, safety standards or international travel arrangements. It noted that in the records of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the airport code has consistently remained \u201cACC\u201d.<\/p>\n
The renaming process will involve the systematic updating of official documentation, statutory instruments where necessary, airport signage, digital platforms, aviation publications and related communication materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Nii Moi Thompson, has backed the government\u2019s decision to rename Kotoka International Airport, describing the move as long overdue and appropriate. On February 23, the Government of Ghana officially reverted the facility\u2019s name to its original designation \u2014 Accra International Airport. In a statement issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":16021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3916,3507,18],"tags":[5057,5056],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-infrastructure","category-national","category-politics","tag-kia-rename","tag-ndpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16022,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}