GACL’s Dangerous Lies About McDan’s Illegal Private Jet Operation Revealed

It has emerged that among other things, the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) had allowed McDan Aviation to fly its unlicensed airplane in flagrant disregard for air safety protocols.

Later, a pretentious GACL will dramatically turn around to accuse McDan of vandalizing air traffic rules at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) by constructing a private jet terminal on the supposed blind side of the airport authority.

McDan inaugurated his illegal terminal on Friday, January 28, 2022. On that same day, the GACL issued a letter stating: “We only became aware of your construction activities during routine security patrols, and we had to ask you to stop and submit a PCO for review and approval before construction continued.”

The GACL letter continued: “…The GACL has noticed with concern your disregard for the norms of doing business in the aviation sector which requires strict adherence to safety and security rules. Indeed, you have engaged in several activities without prior approval from GACL which have typically called for emergency corrective actions.”

Yet, the GACL which complained about a supposed clandestine construction of the private jet terminal by McDan and a consequent January 28 letter asking McDan to stop its inauguration, had written to McDan three days earlier, January 25, 2022, officially confirming that the GACL had delegated Terminal 1 to McDan Aviation for private jet operation.

In the letter, the GACL wrote: “With reference to our earlier letter referenced GACL/MD/FHS20/1/22on the above subject we wish to inform you that the GACL has delegated the Terminal 1 to MacDan aviation for private jet operations.”

In the January 25 letter signed by the GACL Managing Director, Yaw Kwakwa, the GACL referenced a much earlier letter of January 20, 2022, proving that the airport authority had blatantly lied that it did not know about the construction of McDan’s private jet terminal.

This is because, in all those previous letters, the GACL and McDan had been in advanced discussions for the private jet terminal to should install a COVID-19 testing station.

“As part of measures to operationalise the Terminal we require Covid-19 testing services at the Terminal. Consequently, please install your COVID-19 testing equipment in Terminal 1 to facilitate the intended Private Jet Operations,” the lying GACL stated.

The GACL, per revelation, also allowed McDan Aviation to vandalize International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) protocols with the flight of its unlicensed airplane.

Also, the GACL is said to have actually helped McDan Aviation cover up its illegal activities at the KIA from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) by conjuring an aircraft operator license for it.

Then fearing the serious implications of its actions, the GACL hypocritically carried out the short confrontation with McDan Aviation to cover up its complicity, Insiders have told Whatsup News.

McDan Aviation is a Fixed Base Operator (FBO) at the KIA. This means that it is allowed to provide aeronautical services on the basis of an FBO license.

According to revelations, McDan Aviation’s FBO license expired and it took the company some time to renew it. But while still in the process of renewing it, the GACL permitted it to fly the company’s jet nine (9) times without the requisite license.

McDan even reportedly flew Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, the notorious cousin of President Akufo Addo out of the country. Later, Whatsup News will learn that Mr. Otchere-Darko would become livid with McDan when he learnt that the jet he had just flown in was not licensed, nor was it insured.

Critics have since not failed to see that McDan’s impunity has the backing of the Akufo-Addo Jubilee House because of the overhanging fact that Daniel McKorley, the CEO of the McDan Group of companies was an important bankroller of the political campaigns of President Akufo-Addo.

In fact, the impunity of McDan Aviation which is said to be owing to the GACL more than Ghc30million has raised suspicion that McDan Aviation may actually belong to the Akufo-Addo family and that Daniel McKorley is probably only fronting.