Government to construct 3 community parks
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah, has promised that the ministry will see to the construction of three community parks this year as the first phase of the government’s pledge to provide such parks across the country.
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According to him a model has been developed for the take-off of the project, and appealed to all sporting associations must come on board to ensure the effective take-off of the project.
He bemoaned the non-existence of such parks in the country and stressed that the ministry would do all it could to make such parks a reality.
Mr Asiamah disclosed that the five regions currently without stadiums would be provided with the facility, adding that a rigorous maintenance regime would be instituted to forestall any decay and corrosion of the facilties.
He made the pledge when he led officials of the ministry and other affiliate bodies on a tour of the Accra Stadium and the Azumah Nelson Sports Complex last week.
At the Azumah Nelson Sports Complex, the minister was shocked at the poor state of the facility and ordered Mr Saka Acquaye, the Deputy Director General (technical) at the National Sports Authority (NSA) and the CEO of the National Youth Authority, Mr Emmanuel Asigri, to submit a report on the degree of dilapidation on a three-storey building at the complex, constructed four decades ago to house the senior national team during the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations hosted in the country.
He also pledged to instruct the chief director to form a structural integrity analysis team on the building to see how best it could be renovated.
Mr Asigri, for his part, expressed his commitment to the minister’s ideals and pledged to support it wholeheartedly.
