The President with Joseph 'King Kong' Agbeko, a two-time former bantamweight world champion
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says boxing under his tenure will receive maximum attention in order to put sporting disciplines other than football back on the radar.
According to him, Ghana boasts of enormous talents in other disciplines and not only in football. “Unfortunately, in the last few years, it has been made to seem that football is the only sport that we are good at. It is not true."
“We have had outstanding talents and champions in athletics, boxing, table tennis, amongst others, and it is about time we nurtured all the talents in our country to make it possible for people who have the ability and talent in these disciplines also to emerge.”
President Akufo-Addo made this known on Thursday, March 9, when members of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) called on him at the Flagstaff House.
They were there, led by the Authority’s President, Peter Zwennes, to formally invite President Akufo-Addo to Saturday night’s ‘Freedom Fight Night’.
The Night has been put together as part of the 60th independence anniversary celebrations.
