Ghana sports going down the dead roll

... Syas the Minister in Charge
Accra, April 2, GNA - Miss Elizabeth 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.