Citi Sports<\/em> has had several interviews with the heads of the basketball, swimming, hockey, boxing, tennis, badminton and many other associations in the past year where they have openly lamented the lack of funding to execute their annual plans.<\/p>\nTwo weeks ago, Benjamin Baafi, President of the Ghana Basketball Association told Citi Sports that “the ministry is doing nothing for us and all they know is football, while our funding never comes.”<\/p>\n
Funding has been the biggest challenge of many of the associations, despite the government’s allocation 3.3 million cedis to the National Sports Authority (NSA) as budget for the various sporting disciplines at last November’s reading of the budget for this year.<\/p>\n
In reaction to the current impasse, a former Board Chairman of the National Sports Authority, Dr. Henry Puffa told Citi Sports that the situation is exacerbated by the power vacuum existing in the NSA.<\/p>\n
“Our sports in Ghana are snoring. The position of the Board of Directors of the National Sports Authority is not clear and that is the issue.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not clear if the previous Board is there or not. The government must be honest with us as far as the situation of the Board is concerned and for democratic governance, an instrument must be used to appoint a substantive Board and an acting Director General.”<\/p>\n
A date for further talks between Hon. Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah and the gathering of the sporting associations will be announced shortly.
\nBy: Gary Al-Smith\/Citifmlonine.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Citi Sports understands that up to 28 sports associations want autonomy from the National Sports Authority (NSA). This is after repeated complaints over several years about the neglect of other sporting disciplines apart from football. The NSA is the umbrella body for all the sports associations in Ghana but after continuous complaints of nonchalance from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[3],"yoast_head":"\n
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