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Airports operators are bound to guarantee the security, safety, comfort and order at the premises of airports where their services are engaged. This is a prerequisite to ensure the safety of travellers and airline operators. These conditions, which made Kotoka International Airport (KIA) one of the most secured and safest airport in West Africa no longer, exist. The poor and weak security measures put in place at both Domestic and International departures and arrivals as well as the Very Very Important Personalities (VVIP) Lounges are also not helping matters. An unnamed Minister of State and Senior Government officials' enroute to Tamale, on one of the domestic airlines last weekend, came face to face with the reality of lack of security at KIA, when they started sweating at the VIP Lounge in the afternoon while waiting for their flight. The reason was that the air conditioner serving the facility had been stolen. This simply means that security guards at the airport compromised the safety of travellers as well as employees. The Aviation Industry in Ghana is booming, which is an indication of the confidence people have in the economy, hence the need for the KIA authorities to streamline the security situation at the country�s only international airport. This will facilitate efforts by President John Dramani Mahama to salvage the image of KIA. In his zeal to give KIA a new lease of life, President Mahama dissolved and reconstituted the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority�s Board now under the Chairmanship of Mr Tony Lithur, a Legal Practitioner. Mrs Dzifa Aku Attivor, Minister of Transport at the swearing-in of the Board said: �I entreat the board and management to work as a team to realise the objectives of the agencies.�