Feature: Accra Sports Stadium Gradually Turning Into Refuse Site

Accra Sports Stadium Gathers Rubbish

The Accra sports stadium is a national property that has a sole purpose of entertaining fans with the world’s beautiful  game of football and other sports that have centres allocated within the stadium – lawn tennis, karate and so on. The stadium refurbished to a 40,000 all sitting capacity before Ghana hosted the African cup of nations – AFCON in 2008 was a beautiful spectacle when it was commissioned by ex-president John Agyekum Kufuor.

 

 

Almost six years after the continental piece the stadium has acted as the home ground like it was before for Accra based and one of Ghana’s biggest clubs, Accra Hearts of Oak and also hosted boxing bouts – notably the Bukom Banku vs Ayitey Powers  first showdown, music shows and an annual church service on the 31st December of every year by the International central gosple church – ICGC.

On a tour of the stadium recently, sportscrusader.com can reveal the state of the stadium leaves a sour taste in the mouth and an awful sight when one takes a retrospective view when the stadium was officially opened to the public when the Ghana Black stars played the first game of the AFCON 2008 tournament.

Accra sports stadium turning into a refuse site

The metal bars that hold the stadium together are at the mercy of the weather as they rust away swiftly without any attendance to halt this gradually developing disaster. The playing surface which ought to be green and well mowed to allow the free-flow of football during matches is turning into a potato field but that discussion like the state of the whole stadium is for another day.

The Accra sports stadium in the absence of the Ghana premier league and enough games is turning into the ‘Accra refuse site’. The stands that faces opposite the Accra Conference centre is gradually turning into refuse site as rubbish gathered by the sanitation workers at the stadium is dumped there. It started small like all the filth that has engulfed Ghana and the current state is much appalling for a country that beats its chest to be a harbour of  African football.

 

The heap of refuse has overflown the refuse container that is meant to contain it and is gathering pace from the ground and is slowly catching-up with the height of the refuse container. Whoever (herein the National sports authority – NSA) is in-charge of sanitation at the Accra Sports stadium seems to have forgotten his job and his immediate attention has to be drawn to the mess gathering at his doorsteps in-case he might have forgotten what the taxpayers paid him as salary is meant for.

 

 

The Accra sports stadium on February 20th when the Ghana premier league commences for the 2015/16 season will be the venue as Accra Hearts of Oak host New Edubiase and that sight should have left the venue before it develops into a cholera epidemic breaking scene.

Feature: Accra Sports Stadium Gradually Turning Into Refuse Site