Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the May 9 Stadium disaster, Christopher Annan has revealed that 77 children of the 2001 disaster victims benefit from the body.
The Government of Ghana instituted a body in August 2001 to cater for the education of children who lost their parents during a stampede at the Accra Sports Stadium in a game involving Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
Families of the deceased claim the Board of Trustees which was instituted by the Kuffour administration to cater for the education of the deceased children are left to their fate.
But the body, headed by Mr Annan has debunked those allegations.
“The Board of Trustees and welfare body was mandated to take the educational needs of the deceased children from the basic level to the secondary school level, but we have exceeded that and we take care of the children at the tertiary level as well,” Mr Annan told Sportscrusader.com in an interview.
“We take care of their fees and other things, but we cannot pay the fees of others at the international level, because it varies, but at the secondary school we pay any bill the child submits,” he added.
“At the tertiary school we pay their fees: admission fees, hostel fees, we give them money for their upkeep. At the tertiary level, the parents do not even contribute because we take care of everything,” he stated.
Mr Annan also clarified that the welfare body takes care of only children in school. He added that children who drop out of school do not gain any form of support from the body.
“Like I said we take care of only children in school. If you choose to drop out of school, your benefit ceases,” he noted.
Children Of May 9 Victims Are Catered For
No comments:
Post a Comment