GRi Sports Ghana
17 - 08 - 2000
E. T. Mensah inaugurates National Sports Council Board
Old Stars league enters second week
E. T. Mensah inaugurates National Sports Council Board
Accra
(Greater Accra) 17 August 2000
Mr. Enoch
Teye Mensah, Minister of Youth and Sports, on Wednesday inaugurated an
11-member Board of the National Sports Council chaired by Dr Charles Mensah,
Resident Director of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) in Accra.
The board
is to promote and encourage the organisation development and mass participation
in amateur and professional sports in the country.
It is also
to co-ordinate and integrates all efforts to raise the standard of performance
in amateur and professional sports.
The
Minister said the board is being inaugurated against the background of the
immense transformation that the sports industry has gone through in recent
times.
He said
sports is a potent tool for investment and for the attainment of economic
growth and development and urged the board to research into this area and come
out with ideas as to how best the nation can reap all the benefits.
Quoting
extensively from a report by the British Council published in 1999, the
Minister said, sports related-activities contributed about 10 billion pounds to
the economy of the United Kingdom and created jobs for more than over 750,000
Britons.
Mr. Mensah
said, if the 29 sports associations, which are being co-ordinated by the NSC
are properly managed, they would create jobs for lots of Ghanaians, thereby
raising the standard of living of the people.
He urged
the board not to be intimidated by any of the associations but should be bold
enough to make suggestions when necessary to move Ghana sports forward.
Mr. Mensah
pledged the ministry's support to enable the board perform it duties
efficiently.
The
chairman, Dr Mensah, said since sports is a huge business, their first task
would be to quantify the impact of sports to economic development and once this
is done, "then we will know how much is needed to be put into it."
Other
members of the board are Colonel George Brock, Acting Chief Executive of the
NSC, Mr Dan Piimi, Acting Chief Director of the Ministry of Youth and Sports,
Nana Kumi Gyamfi (C. K. Gyamfi), Member of FIFA and CAF Technical Committee,
Mr. S. M. Alhassan, Judicial Service and Nana Gyamera Tawia, High Court Judge.
The rest
are Mr. Benson T. Baba, President, Ghana Olympic Committee, Mrs. Grace Armah,
Prisons Officer, Mrs. Gifty Anim Botwe, Police Officer, Brigadier D. C. K.
Kattah, Army Representative and Mr. Mustapha Garba, Police Representative.
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Old Stars league enters second week
Accra
(Greater Accra) 17 August 2000
La Old
Stars would lock horns with Osu Old Stars in the second week of the maiden
oldies soccer league this Saturday at Ako-Adjei Park.
La team to
will be led by Ben Kayode of Olympic fame and would include Addo Mackay, Anang
Chartey and Adja Tetteh.
Osu Old
Stars will spot Hesse Odametey of Accra Hearts of Oak fame as well as Saba
Hammond among others.
In the
first week matches, Accra Old Stars were held to a pulsating 1-1 drawn game by
Accra Retired F/C at the Indadfa park, Mamprobi, while Honourable E.T. Mensah
led Teshie Old Star to beat Scrap Rangers 2-1 at Teshie Public Park.
The
six-team league has at stake a giant silver cup and a cash prize of one million
cedis for the winner.
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