Ghana Premier League money cannot maintain our stadia - NSA

The National Sports Authority (NSA) has disclosed that profits made from Ghana Premier League games are not enough to maintain and manage the expenses of stadiums in the country.

The NSA spokesman, Charles Amofa, explained that the expenses of one stadium are about 80,000 cedis monthly, while the profit margins from a Ghana Premier League match are just 700 cedis.

According to him, the NSA has no option but to find alternative ways of generating revenue for the maintenance of the various stadiums in the country. "Multifunctional facilities, that is, we don’t only use it for football; there are other disciplines like volleyball, handball, boxing, etc. They all use the facility. Because of our mandate to develop sports in Ghana, we can’t pass the cost of using the facility to the sportsmen,” Amofa told Peace FM.

“When a windfall comes, for example, Hearts and Kotoko, it comes once in a while, but if you look at the facility, we have Accra Sports Stadium, Baba Yara Stadium. The cost of maintaining the facility, a month’s electricity bill, sometimes it is 80,000 cedis, water bill, sanitation," he added.

“After a game, it sometimes takes us 2 or 3 days to clean the whole place. Sometimes when you go to the washroom, bulbs have been removed, taps removed. All of these are maintenance tasks the Sports Authority has to do.”

Amofa’s comments come after the NSA was slammed by Ghanaians for poor stadium maintenance.

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