Deputy Sports Minister Attack NSA

Deputy Sports Minister, Vincent Oppong Asamoah, has blamed the National Sports Authority (NSA) for the poor management of the four national stadia.

According to the Member of Parliament for Dormaa West constituency, the fast deterioration of the facilities at the four national stadia in Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi and Tamale has exposed the NSA to heavy criticisms as poor managers.

Aside the poor state of these edifices, the NSA also owes the Electricity Company of Ghana huge sums of debt for power supply to the four stadia leading to power cuts in recent times.

“The money that we make is what we use to maintain the facilities. This means the available revenue becomes difficult to manage the system. But in the midst of little resources we are expected to prioritize the expenses we have”, he told Starr FM.

Meanwhile, the Sports Ministry will soon employ the services of some private companies to manage the state properties.

Deputy Sports Minister Attack NSA

Press Release: NSA Clears The Air On Ghana-Mozambique Match

It has come to the attention of the National Sports Authority (NSA), that some media houses are imputing misconduct to the Authority for errors in tickets, that were procured for sale for the recent Ghana Mozambique football Match.

The Authority would like to put on record that, it does not print or procure tickets that are sold for football matches. Procurement of tickets to be sold is the responsibility of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The Authority is only responsible for complimentary tickets that are given to acknowledged officials like Ministers, MP’s in the select Committee of youth, Sports and Culture, NSA Board Members, Ghana Football Association and other officials.

Unless any complimentary tickets have been offered for sale, any problem with printing of tickets should not be blamed on the National Sports Authority.

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Press Release: NSA Clears The Air On Ghana-Mozambique Match

Central Region Received only GH¢1,600 For Sports Development in 2015

The Central Regional Sports Authority received a meager GH¢1,600 budgetary allocation as sports development levy for the region last year.

The Regional Director of Sports, Mr Kweku Abaidoo Wilson, who made this known to the public, said the situation is hampering serious sports development in the region.

Mr Wilson disclosed this when the newly-appointed Sports Minister, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye and the Central Regional Minister, Mr Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, toured some sports facilities in Cape Coast.

According to Mr Wilson, even the retained five percent from league proceeds meant for maintenance purposes “is sent to Accra, a situation which compounds the already bad situation.”

“We have a lot of potential in the region but we cannot unearth such talent because of poor economic reasons,” he stressed.

He appealed to the minister to ensure that the five per cent proceeds is retained in the region to develop sports.

The minister, for his part, urged the sports authority in the region to evolve ways to generate revenue to develop the facilities.

That, he said, could be possible through Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) collaboration, adding that “there is the need to collaborate with them to create an industry out of our stadia.”

He commended the sports authority in the region for keeping the Cape Coast stadium clean and healthy.

Nii Vanderpuye said the world had moved from sponsoring sports and stressed the need for hard work and dedication

The Regional Minister, gave an assurance that he would do everything to support and improve sports in the region.

Central Region Received only GH¢1,600 For Sports Development in 2015

McDan Open Goes International

The McDan Open Tennis Championship goes international this year with the finest local talent expected to face a stern challenge from tennis players from other African countries.

The winner of the 2016 edition of the biggest event on the Ghanaian tennis calendar is rumoured to take home a lucrative cash prize of $30,000 which organisers believe will be enough to attract the best African players to participate.

The General Secretary of the Ghana Tennis Federation, Phillipina Frimpong disclosed to sportscrusader.com that she was working tirelessly to get the McDan Open on the Confederation of African Tennis (CAT) circuit which would guarantee that elite tennis players will turn-up when the event gets underway.

The Chief Executive Officer of McDan Group of Companies, Mr. Daniel McKorley who sponsors the championship said that his main intention for the event going international was for Ghanaian players to test themselves against the best players in world.

He added that, most of the Ghanaian tennis players were at an age where they must play the best if they want to improve.

Meanwhile, this year’s Tennis Professionals of Ghana (TPG)/GTF National Ranking tournament will be held next month in Kumasi.

As part of preparations for the ranking tournament, officials of the Ghana Tennis Federation and its Ashanti regional executives, organisers of the tournament together and the TPG, are locked in negotiations on a GHC 40,000 sponsorship deal with the McDan Group of Companies.

McDan Open Goes International

NSA goes hard on occupants of Corporate Boxes at Accra Sports Stadium

The Management of the National Sports Authority (NSA) has descended heavily on occupants of the Corporate Box of the Accra Sports Stadium, after efforts to eject them failed.

Sportscrusader gathers that most of the occupants are occupying the corporate boxes without any form of payment to the NSA, thereby putting undue pressure on the resources of the NSA.

Most of the occupants have been for years without paying any rent or utility bills to the NSA, hence the decision to eject them.

The NSA in a bid to streamline their activities and commercialize some of its properties, sent notices to some occupants of the Corporate Boxes at the Stadium to quit by the end of June 2015.

However, the occupants failed to heed to the warning of the NSA and subsequent for them to vacate by December 31 was also not adhered to.

The NSA according to information reaching sportscrusader had no option than to lock the six out of the eight offices, to forcibly eject the occupants.

A visit to the offices saw most of the offices with locked welded metals hence the occupants were unable to access the office.

Notable among the occupants were, Francis Adjetey Sowah, former vice president of the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) and President of Africa Amputee Football Federation who uses the office as secretariat of the continent body that governs amputee football, Group Captain Gyimah Kwakye, former Security Cordinator of the NSA and Mr. Kuuku Dzanie who uses one of the offices for private purposes.

According to information gathered by the sports crusader, the NSA will renovate the office and rent them out to new clients who are ready to pay for the use of the offices.

NSA goes hard on occupants of Corporate Boxes at Accra Sports Stadium

NSA must be held responsible for power outage - George Amoako

George Amoako, Director of Finance of the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) has said, the National Sports Authority (NSA) should be held responsible for the outage that led to over an hour power outage during the G6 game between Accra Hearts of Oak and Aduana Stars at the Essipong Stadium last Thursday.

Speaking in an interview, he said GHALCA hired and paid for the use of the stadium and it was the responsibility of the NSA to ensure that, everything was in good condition for the competition.

“We paid for every facility at the stadium and it was their responsibility to to it that, the generator was in good condition as well as other facilities.

“They must be held responsible for what happened last night. They are owners of the stadium and we just hired it.” He stated.

He noted that, the organizers are putting in place the needed measures to avoid that incident again as the competition enters the second day.

The match between Hearts and Aduana was temporally halted after the lights at the stadium went off.

It was later restored but the rest of the match was played in an empty stadium as the ended on a barren note.

NSA must be held responsible for power outage - George Amoako