A committee chaired by the
Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Perry Okudzeto has been set up to come
up with a roadmap to enable the proposed special competition by the
Normalisation Committee to come off.
This is the outcome of a
meeting between the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Parliamentary Select
Committee on Youth, Sports and Culture as well as the NC and the Ghana League
Clubs Association to resolve the impasse between the two bodies over the
organisation of the special competition.
Sports Minister, Issac Kwame
Asiamah and Alex Agyekum, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee,
on Monday, met the two parties and successfully mediated, paving the way for
the two sides to agree that the competition is held.
As part of the agreement, a
committee was set up to set out the roadmap for the competition which will be
held at a date to be announced soon.
Other members of the
committee are Mr. O.B Amoah, MP for Aburi and the Deputy Minister of Local
Government, Madam Lucy Quist, the Vice President of the Normalisation
Committee, Kudjoe Fianoo (Chairman of GHALCA), Kurt Okraku (representing the
Premier League clubs), Randy Abbey (representing the Division One League
clubs) and the acting General Secretary of the Football Association, Alex
Asante.
The Premier League clubs and
the NC have disagreed on a number of issues since the NC proposed the
organisaion of the special competition, which is intended to bring back football
activity on the local scene which has been put on hold since last June after
the investigative expose, Number 12.
The disagreement has been
over the financial details, payment of players as well as venues and fixtures
for the competition among other things.
