{"id":267503,"date":"2016-11-12T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267503"},"modified":"2016-11-12T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:27:34","slug":"sports-ministry-not-sending-supporters-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/sports-ministry-not-sending-supporters-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Ministry not sending supporters to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS), has denied reports that it plans to take supporters to Alexandria, Egypt, \u00a0for the Black Stars\u2019 game against Egypt on 13th November, 2016.<\/p>\n
According to a press release from Ministry signed by Mr Elvis Adjei-Baah, the Public Relations Officer, it said, it has has noted that there were \u201cspeculations\u201d on various media platforms that the Ministry flew fans to Egypt to support the Black Stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry\u2019s attention has been drawn to speculations on various media networks that we are airlifting supporters to Alexandria, Egypt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry would want to clearly state that no such decision is being or has been taken by the Ministry.
\n\u201cThis is in view of the fact that such decision would be in breach of the governments white paper on the report of the Dzamefe Commission\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the release, the Ministry could only \u201cencourage private sponsorships\u201d for the various groups of which \u201cwe appropriately backed\u201d the Ghana Supporters Union (GHANSU) to solicit funds from corporate organizations in their bid to galvanize support for the Black Stars in Egypt.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS), has denied reports that it plans to take supporters to Alexandria, Egypt, \u00a0for the Black Stars\u2019 game against Egypt on 13th November, 2016. According to a press release from Ministry signed by Mr Elvis Adjei-Baah, the Public Relations Officer, it said, it has has noted that there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[13541,3,4281],"yoast_head":"\n