{"id":240719,"date":"2026-08-09T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gacl-introduces-hotline-and-mystery-shopping-to-fight-airport-extortion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:10:04","slug":"ghana-gacl-introduces-hotline-and-mystery-shopping-to-fight-airport-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gacl-introduces-hotline-and-mystery-shopping-to-fight-airport-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GACL Introduces Hotline and &#8216;Mystery Shopping&#8217; to Fight Airport Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has announced new measures to stop extortion and begging by airport personnel at airports under its management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The decision was taken at a high-level stakeholder facilitation meeting held in Accra on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a press statement issued after the meeting, GACL said stakeholders agreed to introduce a &#8220;mystery shopping&#8221; system in which individuals would secretly assess the conduct of airport personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070716.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has announced new measures to stop extortion and begging by airport personnel at airports under its management. The decision was taken at a high-level stakeholder facilitation meeting held in Accra on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. In a press statement issued after the meeting, GACL said stakeholders agreed to introduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,2819,8735,4345,55102,4508,4509,23589,8519,10375,257,14166,254],"class_list":["post-240719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-extortion","tag-fight","tag-gacl","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hotline","tag-introduces","tag-mystery","tag-news","tag-shopping","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}