{"id":401974,"date":"2017-07-17T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/17\/kojo-addae-mensah-blasts-sports-minister-on-bus-subsidy-for-clubs\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:03:43","slug":"kojo-addae-mensah-blasts-sports-minister-on-bus-subsidy-for-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/17\/kojo-addae-mensah-blasts-sports-minister-on-bus-subsidy-for-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojo Addae-Mensah blasts Sports Minister on bus subsidy for clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 17 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-07-17<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/14254010.295.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Asiamah Sports Ministry\" title=\"Isaac Asiamah Sports Ministry\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Isaac Asiamah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1500282223_380_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Passionate as he is about the development of football, the CEO of Databank Kojo Addae-Mensah has blasted Ghana\u2019s Sports Minister over his attempt to secure bus subsidies for clubs insisting government must develop infrastructure instead.<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Minister in an interview with Fiifi Banson on Kasapa FM a week ago disclosed that his outfit will be leading the way by assisting the clubs to buy quality buses at discounted amounts while those without money will be subsidized to use STCs to travel for their matches.<\/p>\n<p>But the astute financial guru says the minister\u2019s attempt is much ado about nothing since the buses will still be plying the poor roads and the game can\u2019t thrive on bad pitches and stadia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state\u2019s responsibility must be infrastructure development, not to subsidize buses for clubs and not an adhoc subsidy for transportation for league games,\u201d he blasted on the Football Legends Night Show on GhOne TV on Friday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">@Databankgroupgh CEO @kojoaddaemensah blasts Ghana&#8217;s Sports Minister on bus subsidies for clubs &#8211; insists gov&#8217;t must develop infrastructure pic.twitter.com\/nAWzapWGBE<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheikh Tophic Sienu (@DeSheikh1) July 17, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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