Brigadier Brock to lose job

Brigadier George Brock, Acting Chief Executive of the National Sports Council (NSC) is to be fired for gross negligence in the performance of his duties on May 9, leading to the Accra Sports Stadium

Disaster.

This is contained in a government White Paper on the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the disaster released in Accra on Tuesday.

Warrant Officer Class Two, Seth Dwamena, Chief Security Officer of the NSC has also been recommended for the sack for gross negligence. The White Paper also recommended the appointment of a Chief Safety Officer, a new position, for the NSC.

The report said Government views the unwarranted ministerial interference in the affairs of the NSC as capricious use of political power and deplores the conduct of Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, the former sector minister.

Government also frowned at the conduct of the consultant who supervised the project "in allowing a lay minister to influence his professional judgement" and recommended that the NSC should be run in accordance with the Sports laws and not as a department of the ministry of Youth and Sports.