National Fitness Day Committee inaugurated

Kweku Zurek Sports News Aug - 03 - 2021 , 12:27

The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) has inaugurated an 11-member committee to carry out Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia's vision to institute the monthly celebration of a National Fitness Day.

Chaired by the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Evans Opoku Bobie, the Committee among other duties is to advise the Minister of Youth and Sports on the feasibility and strategic implementation of the National Fitness Day across the 16 regions of the country.

Other members of the Committee include the Director General of the National Sports Authority, Professor Peter Twumasi; the Mayor of Accra, Mohammed Adjei Sowah; the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Coastal Development Authority (CODA), Mr Jerry Ahmed Shaib; the outgoing Mayor of Tamale, Mr Musah Superior and representatives of the Office of the Vice President, Mr Tamimu Issah and Mr Ahmed Abdulai Abu.

The rest are a Deputy Director of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr Samuel Korsah, a representative of the Ministry of National Security, Madam Susana Amo, the Deputy National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party, Madam Perpetual Lomokie Akwada and Dr Gifty Oware Aboagye.

The Committee is to present its report to the MOYS within one month.

National Fitness Day

The day which is proposed to be marked nationwide on the first Saturday of every month is the brainchild of Vice President Bawumia who at the Commissioning of an astroturf last June at Adjiringanor charged the Ministry of Youth and Sports to make it a permanent feature on the country’s sporting calendar.

See the members of the Committee below;

NATIONAL FITNESS DAY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

1. Hon. Evans Opoku Bobie

2. Prof. Peter Twumasi

3. Hon. Mohammed Adjei Sowah

4. Jerry Ahmed Shaibu