Ghana’s ‘neat’, ‘super well-organised’ KIA like Dubai – French Amb

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According to French Ambassador Anne Sophie Avé, Ghana’s Kotoka International Airport (KIA) meets Dubai and European standards.

“The initial impression is: Wow!” Anne Sophie Avé told Nana Romeo on Accra100.5FM’s mid-morning broadcast Ayekoo Ayekoo on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, when asked about her first impression upon arriving Ghana.

“You have a new airport that is [of] international standard, and I have traveled to other countries, but it was with the army, so I would sometimes go to military airports, but I had to travel in the Indian Ocean to some countries where the airport is basically like a hut; and it’s nice; it’s pristine, but it’s not [of] international standard.”

“Ok, where am I: is this Dubai, is this a European country?” she said when she arrived in Kotoka.

“Everything is neat, everything is really well-organized,” she added, “and when COVID started and you organized this testing at the Arrivals, people who came from overseas were quite surprised; they said, ‘Wow, the organization is great.”

“And then you get out of the airport and then you’ve got this nice heat that hugs you”.

“It was a bit humid; you get into something very comfortable and the people are smiling; when you arrive, people smile at you and you get ‘Akwaaba’, you get ‘bonne arrivée’, people try their French on you and you go: Wow, is this heaven? You feel welcome and you feel at home from the very beginning”, she said.

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