{"id":437847,"date":"2017-11-16T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/sports-ministry-2018-budget-cut-by-30-percent\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:00:09","slug":"sports-ministry-2018-budget-cut-by-30-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/sports-ministry-2018-budget-cut-by-30-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Ministry 2018 budget cut by 30 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 16 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-16<\/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\/95979185.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sports Minister\" title=\"Sports Minister\" width=\"295\" height=\"225\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057539911396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057539911396\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510833609_255_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Following Wednesday\u2019s reading of the 2018 Budget and Financial Statement by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, it has emerged that the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the 2018 year has seen a 30% reduction.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the Ministry was given a budget of GHS 46, 910, 275 for its activities.<\/p>\n<p>The money was to be spent on Compensation of Employees of the Ministry and its related departments and agencies, goods and services and capital expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>The other line items on the budget were retained internally generated funds and funds from development partners.<\/p>\n<p>For 2018, the Youth and Sports Ministry will have GHS 32, 799, 500 to work with for all activities and programmes.<\/p>\n<p>On the sporting side, the budget stated that Ghana would be taking part in a number of international competitions such as Youth Olympics Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina from the 6th to the 18th of October, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Other activities the budget captured were the African Youth Games in Algeria, and the Commonwealth Games in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars, the Black Princesses, the Black Starlets and Black Satellites will be involved in various qualifiers for various competitions.<\/p>\n<p><b>The devil in the details<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Even though the overall budget saw a huge reduction, certain line items received more funds for the 2018 as compared to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, compensation of employees shot up by  14.7% taking the 2017 expenditure up from GHS 14, 377, 052 to 16, 857, 786.<\/p>\n<p>Capital expenditure went upwards by 63.9% to 2, 774, 420 from the 2017 figure of GHS 1, 000, 000.<\/p>\n<p>Two line items- Goods and Services and Retained Internally Generated Funds- saw massive drops in their respective allocations.<\/p>\n<p>For Goods and Services, there was a whopping 145 % drop as the 2017 allocation of GHS 30, 457, 092 went down to GHS 12, 411, 380.<\/p>\n<p>The Retained Internally Generated Funds item also went down from GHS 1,076, 131 in 2017 to GHS 755, 914 representing a 42.3% percent drop.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the line item in relation to Development Partners\u2019 Funds stood at zero 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