Govt to unearth talents in schools

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Asiamah, has reiterated the government’s desire to make school sports the hub for the identification and development of sporting talents.

This, according to him, is because a well resourced academy and sports colleges will offer the appropriate solutions for the development of all sporting disciplines.

To this end, Mr Asiamah said the legal framework for the establishment of colleges of sports and other sporting academies will soon be submitted to cabinet for onward submission to Parliament.

Mr Asiamah made these known when the President of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF), Mr Charles Osei Asibey called on him at his office in Accra, to expressed concern about the challenges facing the youth of the country and the sports sector. He said he was confident that the new administration would turn things round.

“Sports is no more a recreation, it is a serious business and for us in this government our thinking and concentration has been on how to use sports to create employment and use it to engage the youth in some form of productive venture,” Mr Asiamah stressed. He added that  consultations were already ongoing to consider an appropriate means of insuring national sportsmen and women.

In his response, Mr Asibey assured the minister of the support of his federation and gave the hint that for the first time, the GAF is raising a team to represent Ghana in June at the 2017 Africa Armwrestling Championship in Lagos.