Allowances Of Ghanaian Athletes At ECOWAS Games Yet To Be Paid
Seven months after the ECOWAS Games, athletes who represented Ghana are yet to receive allowances and per diem due them.
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Allowances Of Ghanaian Athletes At ECOWAS Games Yet To Be Paid
Seven months after the ECOWAS Games, athletes who represented Ghana are yet to receive allowances and per diem due them.
Team Ghana emerged overall winners at the end of the competition, bagging 17 gold medals, 11 silver and nine bronze medals.
Despite the image-enhancing performance they put up at the Games, the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) has failed to pay their per diem and bonuses for the medals they won and have called on the authorities responsible to pay them.
Owing to the pressure from athletes, Louis Abeka, general captain of the national handball team told the Times Sports last week that complaint to get officials at the National Sports Authority (NSA) to settle their financial obligation have fell on deaf ears and rather soliciting threats of being sanctioned from their work places.
With a sizeable number of the contingent coming from the security services, a number of them have been gagged on making the matter public, a visibly disturbed Abeka said.
“We have tried several times to get Mr Erasmus Adorkor, the Chief Sports Development Officer (CSDO) at the NSA on the issue but to my surprise, he rather threatened to report us to our superiors in the Service.”
According to Abeka, the President of the Ghana Handball Association (GHA), Mr. Kenneth Dzirassah and Mr. Adorkor promised an additional GH¢4000 package for gold, GH¢3000 for silver and GH¢2000 for bronze.
Abeka revealed that plans to demonstrate against the officials responsible for the non-payment of their allowances was shelved because of the fear that sanctions will be handed out to them.
When contacted, Mr. Adorkor denied threatening Abeka or any group of athletes but rather urged them to petition appropriate quarters since he was not in any position to address the issue.
Mr. Adorkor denied making any promise of a financial reward to any team before, during and after the ECOWAS Games.
“I am not in any position to promise such an amount of money to anyone. Even with that authority such information would rather be relayed to the coaches and not the players,” he stressed.
Mr. Adorkor said his interaction in the course of the Games has been with coaches and not players and confirmed that the MOYS is yet to release funds for the payment of their bonuses and other allowances accrued.
The GHA president, Mr. Dzirassah also denied promising the handball team the said because he was not in any position to do so, saying, ‘monies to pay them will come from government and not an individual.’
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Allowances Of Ghanaian Athletes At ECOWAS Games Yet To Be Paid
Seven months after the ECOWAS Games, athletes who represented Ghana are yet to receive allowances and per diem due them.
Team Ghana emerged overall winners ...
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DWARFS 0 HASAACAS1 OR DWARFS 1 HASAACAS 2 WHICH IS WHICH
GHANAWEB WAKEUP FROM YOUR SLUMBER