Sports festival here to stay — Veep
The Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has pledged the government’s support in making the National Sports Festival a regular feature on the annual calendar of the National Sports Authority.
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He has also given an assurance that everything possible would be done to revive the development and progress of sports in the country as a means of also promoting unity and providing jobs.
The Vice President said this when he opened the revived National Sports Festival at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, last Saturday.
He said aside promoting unity, sports also held the key to job creation as had been exemplified by the vibrant economic activities that usually took place during sports events, hence the theme for the ongoing sports festival, “Unity and job creation”.
Dr Bawumia also emphasised the healthy friendship and bonds that sports forged, saying it provided a good platform for people to be exposed to other perspectives other than theirs.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, in his address also re-emphasised the government’s resolve to make the games a regular event to help unearth talents to feed all the national teams of the various sporting disciplines.
He also hinted that the Security Services Sports Association (SESSA) Games would be revived as the ministry was in discussion with the security agencies.
He encouraged all the participants to take active part in the games as “sports is about participation and you are all winners.”
In the opening game of the women’s football competition, Ashanti Region earned a lone goal victory over Upper East Region.