Liberia: Airport Boss Sacked Over Low Fuel And Dark Runways
Liberia’s president has sacked the head of the country’s only international airport after dark runways, caused by power failures, had forced numerous incoming flights to land in neighbouring Sierra Leone instead. A presidential press release says the new man to manage the airport will be Darlington Karnley, who also presently works at
American aircraft manufacturer Boeing as an aviation electronic technical specialist manager. It’s not clear when he’s assuming duties at the Roberts International Airport, 45km (28 miles) south-east of the Monrovia, but critics say the airport faults are all purely administrative. The change in leadership also comes amid reports of jet fuel shortages at the struggling airport. This is causing
major delays of the jet fuel and other petroleum product vessels around the world, Conex Energy said, adding, the next jet fuel vessel to Liberia is expected around the May 17. The country’s hydro-electro plant, destroyed in brutal civil wars, were repaired by the former Government of Ellen but electricity transmission and distribution have remained a challenge, nearly twenty years after the wars ended.