Sports News of Thursday, 16 March 2017
Source: sportscrusader.com
2017-03-16
New GOC president Ben Nunoo Mensah
Newly elected Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) president Ben Nunoo Mensah has intimated that he is ready to work with everybody in order to push the sports in the country forward.
Mensah unseated the incumbent president Professor Francis Dodoo, after polling 33 votes as against the latter’s 28 votes in an elective congress on Wednesday at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
“In every elections factions are bound to happened, after the elections that is it. I’m have clearly stated that is something i’m going to insist on,” Mensah told Sportscrusader.com after he was declared the winner.
‘I’m a very good team player i like to bring on board people. I don’t want factions, Ghana sports belongs to all of us and we have to make it better not me alone.
‘The media has a role to play, corporate Ghana have a role to play, the government, everybody in the country have a role to play. Everybody will be happy to see that sports is moving forward and i believe with kind of approach we will make a strive.”
