Deputy Minister reiterates the need to revolutionize sports into a business industry

The Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports (MOYS), Hon. Pius Hadzide, has reiterated the need to capitalize on the huge potential of sports with regards to providing for jobs for the unemployed youth.

Sports in Ghana has been handicapped in past years with successive government unable to exploit the numerous opportunities that sports provides which has hindered the development of sports in the country.

But according to Hon. Hadzide his Ministry have laid down procedures that will thrive sports development and help provide jobs for the unemployed as they seek to revolutionize the sector.

“We see sports as a tool for worth creation and for healthy living, we see sports a tool for crime prevention and so we encourage that sports is an industry that has potential to create jobs for the youth of Ghana.

” But for it to be able to do that we all have to put hands on deck to make sure that we revolutionize sports in this country and turn it into a modern industry and it will require huge infrastructure and investment but it will require massive training in manpower and technical direction.

“And so we working towards establishing a national sports policy, so we do believe that sports can be made an industry that is capable of employing by large number of Ghanaians we are unemployed,” Hon. Hadzide told the media.

Meanwhile, the Ghana National Petroleum Cooperation have partnered the MOYS to develop sports by given them a whooping amount of $1.5 million to aid the course.