A former Chairman of Parliamentary select committee on Youth, Sports and Culture, Mr. Kobina Mensah Woyome has called on Government to make public the amount of money allocated to sports development in the country in the 2018 budget.
The budget, he said, must also include the expansion of sports infrastructure and also transforming the National Sports College into a center of excellence.
The Member of Parliament for South Tongu constituency made this known in his address to Parliament on sports development in the country.
“They should let us know how much was allocated to sports development with regard to expanding sports infrastructure and also transforming the National Sports College into a center of excellence.
“When you consider paragraph 642 in the 2017 budget the National Sports Authority (NSA) under a public private partnership arrangement, there is also the process of procuring a transaction advisor to support the rehabilitation of the four national sports stadia in the country.
“In 2017 after the pre-feasibility report on the projects failed to commence, the current budget failed to give any information on the state it has gotten to, for us to appreciate what is going on in that sector, so clearly there is nothing for us to even consider in this particular year’s budget, for us to move forward being a major contribution to advancing sports forward,” he added.
