Is The Accra Sports Stadium Under Utilised?

In many parts of the world where football is played, maintaining a good natural grass pitch is challenging due to the combination of weather conditions, high usage hours and financial restrictions. Heat, cold and high humidity are negative parameters when a natural grass pitch has to be maintained to the highest standards, frequent matches and training sessions that take place on it.

 

 

Some middle-income economic countries find it difficult to create enough income through sponsorship or gate revenues so they therefore look for additional options to generate income.



Ghana through the National Sports Authority seems to have identified the opportunity to rent out their grass pitch of the Accra Sports stadium to football clubs, schools or other sport clubs (e.g. rugby) as the right way to go.

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The Accra sports stadium been readied for an event

The green grass layed at the Accra sports stadium is withering due to poor maintenance and the weather factors stated earlier but unlike the weather (natural course) which man has little or no control over the renting of the field for non-sporting activity seems to be the order of the day fetching the NSA huge sums of money.

 



As these revenues rake in one may ask why then does the pitch appear patchy instead of the natural green colour? Revenues derived from renting out the stadium should be used to maintain the stadium so why isn’t so then? The closest the grass comes to maintenance has to do with the water sprinklers watering the grass every morning and evening.

 

 

Is a football pitch meant to host sports activities – football games, rugby matches or just rake revenue for the NSA and left to ruin?

Is The Accra Sports Stadium Under Utilised?

Ministry Of Sports Owes Us Since... - Green Grass Technology

Gov’t Owes Us – GGT

Green Grass Technology (GGT), a company specialize in delivering natural grass fields that meet the high standards demanded by professional sports governing bodies has reveled they owed huge amounts by the government of Ghana.

 

GGT in preparation for the then upcoming 2008 Africa Cup of Nations put in a bid to maintain the pitches after the tournament and was awarded by the Government of Ghana Department of Education Science & Sports, the proposal also included an embark and ambitious programme to develop sporting facilities that will become a lasting legacy for the nation.

Notably among the lots are the Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi and Tamale sports stadium and the various training pitches that were built at some selected senior high schools across the country.

 

Managing Director of GGT, Frank Boahene in an interview with Boss 93.7 fm in Kumasi revealed the sports ministry’s inability to settle debt owed and efforts to claim those money only keeps dragging on.

 

“The government of Ghana has been indebted to us (Green Grass Technology) since 2012 and with the appointment of a new minister (Nii Lantey Vanderpuije) we hope to continue negotiations with him as previous dealings with former Sports minister, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed ended inconclusively.”

 

Yes! the country is going through some financial challenges but we have made in-roads with the previous minister. We had an arrangement for part if not all that the ministry is owing us to be paid. We hope to finalise that part with the new minister and we hope with the invoices at the ministry, money owed we can be sorted out,” he added.

 

The Accra sports stadium playing surface currently is in a bad state and appears more of a ‘potato field’ than a football playing surface.

Ministry Of Sports Owes Us Since... - Green Grass Technology