The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul has said that Ghana has spent over $50million in the last 10 years on renting aircraft alone.
Speaking on Good Evening Ghana on Thursday June 17 he said “We are spending more money to charter aircraft that we would have if we had our own aircraft. Over the last 10 years we have spent over 50million dollars to charter aircraft and the Ghana Air force is saying why are you wasting all these money.
“If you have 50million United States dollars to charter aircraft to cater for soldiers only, why won’t you give us that money for us to buy a bigger aircraft,” he justify his call for a new presidential jet to be acquired.
The current presidential jet has been used by three presidents including late former President John Evans Atta Mills, former President John Mahama and current President Nana Addo.
Meanwhile Mr. Dominic Nitiwul says the report on Nana Akufo-Addo cannot shower is mischievous.
He reiterated what he said; “I said that no president using this aircraft can shower in this aircraft , no president can freshen up . I never said Akufo-Addo or John Mahama or Kuffuor. In fact three presidents have used this aircraft before. President Mills has used it. President Mahama has used it, Akufo-Addo has used it . I was very amazed that they chose the word ‘Akufo-Addo cannot shower’. Why couldn’t they say President Mahama couldn’t? “Why couldn’t they say President Mills could not shower in? That is why I said this is pure mischief and propaganda.