Typical of us or may be just natural, we have been caught in the euphoria of the senior national team, the Black Stars winning their recent 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Chad and Madagascar, so much that pertinent issues are being glossed over.
Some people are not interested in the budget matters and the call by no mean a person than President John Mahama, for public disclosure of the team’s budget. Sports and Recreation Minister, Kofi Adams believes that, making the Black Stars budget known before they play could distract the team. Interesting.
Kofi Adams would not make Black Stars budget public ahead of time because, Otto Addo and his team’s attention could be hurt by media conversations on those financial issues. This is an argument the minister is borrowing from the past. How we are settling for that, when some of those peddling that talk, condemned former sports ministers for saying the same thing, baffles me.
Suich ridiculous excuses signal the poor handling of the team’s financial issues until authorities can no longer 'cover up' and the lid on their unconscionable mismanagement of taxpayers money is completely blown off. Kofi Adams should watch it. We should learn for once. What we condemned in the past cannot be applauded today.
Talking about learning, we have serious lessons to learn about managing fans at the stadium. The Chad match exposed us; fans are still not being managed well. Having people climb walls and jumping into the stadium with one person invading the pitch is a security breach for which those in charge safety must answer questions.
Colleagues like Happy FM Sports’ Ohene Brenya have been on thus issue, calling for urgent measures to protect lives and property at the stadium before, God forbid, we have stadium disaster on our hands. Let us keep reminding sports authorities to ensure the right things are done. The National Sports Authority and the Police must act.