{"id":452684,"date":"2018-01-06T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/06\/dont-attempt-to-hold-paragliding-festival-chief-tells-tourism-minister\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:00:31","slug":"dont-attempt-to-hold-paragliding-festival-chief-tells-tourism-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/06\/dont-attempt-to-hold-paragliding-festival-chief-tells-tourism-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t attempt to hold paragliding festival \u2013 Chief tells Tourism Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Saturday,  6 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/35890367.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwahu Paragliding Ttt\" title=\"Kwahu Paragliding Ttt\" width=\"295\" height=\"153\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The Chief expressed dissatisfaction over launching the festival in Accra<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515247231_859_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A strong signal has been sent to the Minister for Tourism, Catherine Afeku, and in particular, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), an agency under the ministry, not to make any attempt to celebrate the popular Kwahu Paragliding festival this year.<\/p>\n<p>The detect comes at the back of paragliding festival launch which took place in Accra yesterday, Thursday 4th January, 2018 by the Ghana Tourism Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The paragliding festival is one of the major activities that attract tourists from all walks of life during every Easter period to Kwahu bringing together a number of people including foreigners, investors and natives of Kwahu in the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>According to Friday 5th January 2018 edition of the Ghanaian times, the Ghana tourism Authority has expanded the paragliding flights to increase the number of flights during this year\u2019s paragliding festival. The paper reports that, instead of one flight at a time in previous editions, which was insufficient for the huge number of revelers, the expanded site can now accommodate four flights at a time.<\/p>\n<p>At the launch of this year\u2019s festival, acting Chief executive officer of GTA, Mr. Akwasi Agyemang said the number of foreign pilots had also been increased to 10 adding the 2018 festival which is on the theme: \u2018\u2019You too can fly\u2019\u2019, is scheduled for March 30 to April 2, 2018\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, the chief of Atibie in the Kwahu South District, Nana Berimah Kwame Asante Betiani II, in an interview with Agoo news\u2019 *Ebenezer Kojo Nyavor (K-Lover)* has quizzed the brain behind the launching saying, \u201chow can you always avoid holding the launch on Kwahu soils where the festival usually takes place?<\/p>\n<p>He expressed dissatisfaction over launching the festival in Accra and condemned the Tourism ministry for their late invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Berimah Kwame Asante Betiani II revealed invitation was sent to him a day to the program adding, \u201cthe boss called me to confirm the invitation but that was a day before the launching which is unfair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019How can you launch such activity without the notice of Kwahu-Hene Daasebre Akuamoah Agyapong II and me?\u2019\u2019 He questioned.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Saturday, 6 January 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-01-06 The Chief expressed dissatisfaction over launching the festival in Accra A strong signal has been sent to the Minister for Tourism, Catherine Afeku, and in particular, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), an agency under the ministry, not to make any attempt to celebrate the popular Kwahu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":452685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}