General News of Monday, 7 May 2018Source: Myjoyonline.comAirline right in stopping passenger from boarding plane with crutches – ExpertRita Kriba insists AWA staff should have informed her earlier that they could not accommodate herAerospace Medicine Specialist, Dr. Yakubu Akparibo, has defended Africa World Airlines (AWA) over the decision to prevent a lady living with disability, Rita Kriba, from boarding its Kumasi-bound flight on Saturday. A 30-year-old Rita Kriba who has been living with disability for the past 20 years, felt discriminated against when the staff of the Africa World Airlines (AWA) refused her boarding space on the flight to Kumasi Saturday morning. “They took my passport first and told me that I should wait for them and that I will be leaving at 7:00 …So when it was 7:00 and I was supposed to check-in I was told to stand aside and that I can’t send my crutches inside the plane. So I told them I am a person with a disability, how can I go and leave my crutches. They said ‘no, crutches are not allowed,” she recounted to Joy News.

Source: GhanaWeb May 07, 2018 11:48 UTC