By Philip Otuo
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The president of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) Peter Zwennes has
called on President John Mahama to ensure that money is released to the
Authority to help run their activities.
The president stressed the need to focus
more on the “lesser-known” sports in order to bring laurels to the
country. Although the sport of boxing has produced several world
champions in the past, the GBA has not had any sort of funding from
government in the past two years.
Speaking to
Ultimate FM in Kumasi, Zwennes said his authority is tired of promises and are in dire need of money to finance the activities of the GBA.
“I took that part of the president’s speech
with a pinch of salt. Every year, it’s been the same old promises.
Budgets are presented and approved and yet in the end, they go back and
concentrate everything on the Black Stars,” Zwennes said.
“Ministers have come and gone, all promising
to be ministers for all sports but they turn around and become football
ministers. What we need is money, not words. We are tired of promises,”
Zwennes added.
Source: Ghana/starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
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