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Ghana sports is
doomed unless schools and mass sports are sustained -
Miss Ohene
Accra, April 2, Ghanadot/GNA –
Miss Elezabeth Ohene, Mininster of State in charge of
Education, Science and Sports has opened a can of worms that
says that Ghana’s Sports is fast traveling on a dead roll.
She says to halt the canker that is fast creeping into the
fibre of the country’s sports means accepting the hard
reality that Ghana has lots of catching up to do to reach
the desired destination.
Miss Ohene told participants at the ministry’s three-day
national sports stratagic plan workshop that commenced in
Accra on Wednesday that until the nation rediscovered ways
of sustaining school and mass sports, the downward trend
could not be halted.
“There is something wrong with our associations and sports
in general and until young people are equipped and
incorporated into the running of sports, we will continually
record this decline.
“So often, we deceive ourselves that all is well because the
Black Stars may be doing well, but the truth is we are going
nowhere and are not as special as we think some times.
“It is important that we learn from those who have made it
and find ways of sustaining the momentum that will be
built.”
She underscored the need to equip sportsmen and women to
ensure that their lives after sports would not be miserable.
“It is shocking to notice that we have a bulk of former
stars reduced to penury not because they did not get the
money or recognition in their hay days, but simply because
they did not know how to manage their resources and were
oblivious to the fact that there is life after sports.
Miss Ohene mentioned school sports as a perfect way of
holistically developing sports to benefit the country.
GNA
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