A former President of the Ghana Football Association, Nana Brew Butler, has made an earnest call on government to utilize sports as a medium to keep the Ghanaian youth off the streets.<\/p>\n
He believes the youth of the country who risk falling to various forms of social vices will have a positive platform to channel their efforts and energies if the State provides sporting facilities around the country.<\/p>\n
Mr. Butler told Citi Sports: <\/strong>“Youngsters who play truancy and those who take to the streets and become criminals, they will find recreation somewhere.<\/p>\n “If you have sporting arenas around you could easily attract them to play sports and this takes them off the streets.<\/p>\n “This is one of the interventions, take the sporting facilities to the people encourage them to come on board have technical personnel to take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Brew Butler, who served as FA boss in the mid-nineties, was part of a team of renowned football administrators invited by the Sports Ministry to come out with a comprehensive framework for the development of football in Ghana.<\/p>\n The two-day forum was one of the first moves of current Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga to restore sanity to football on the local scene after the Black Stars’ poor performance at the World Cup saw the team finish bottom of their group with just a point from three games.<\/p>\n More recently a three-man commission of enquiry with the power to summon individuals before it has been established to unravel the various incidents which plagued the team\u2019s camp during Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n By: Benjamin Nketsia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former President of the Ghana Football Association, Nana Brew Butler, has made an earnest call on government to utilize sports as a medium to keep the Ghanaian youth off the streets. He believes the youth of the country who risk falling to various forms of social vices will have a positive platform to channel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,1766,3],"class_list":["post-33284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-economy","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}