{"id":437941,"date":"2017-11-16T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/2018-budget-government-has-no-plans-for-sports-woyome\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:44:45","slug":"2018-budget-government-has-no-plans-for-sports-woyome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/2018-budget-government-has-no-plans-for-sports-woyome\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Budget: Government has no plans for sports \u2013 Woyome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/41442600.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kobla Fraud3\" title=\"Kobla Fraud3\" width=\"295\" height=\"140\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Member of Parliament for South Tongu, Kobla Mensah Woyome<\/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\/1510854285_768_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana\u2019s Parliamentary Select Committee member on Sports, Kobla Mensah Woyome, has described the Finance Minister\u2019s refusal to mention government plans for sports as disappointing during Wednesday\u2019s Budget presentation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Member of Parliament for South Tongu, the presentation of the statement clearly shows government\u2019s unwillingness to develop sports disciplines in the country.<\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday\u2019s presentation, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta failed to touch on the passing of the Legislative Instruments on the National Youth and Sports Act which will be implemented next year despite being part of the statement, Woyome reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the previous government we had looked at the way to develop sports since it is a major factor in GDP growth through seminars and programs\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no achievement in 2017 because if there was it would have been juxtaposed with what the past government did. There should have been plans on hosting other tournaments to generate foreign exchange but there was nothing like that\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this disappointment, the Select Committee will summon the sector Minister and his deputy in the coming days to come explain their failure to input the future of sports in the Statement\u201d, Woyome stated.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for South Tongu, Kobla Mensah Woyome Ghana\u2019s Parliamentary Select Committee member on Sports, Kobla Mensah Woyome, has described the Finance Minister\u2019s refusal to mention government plans for sports as disappointing during Wednesday\u2019s Budget presentation. According to the Member of Parliament for South Tongu, the presentation of the statement clearly shows government\u2019s unwillingness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2018 Budget: Government has no plans for sports \u2013 Woyome - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/2018-budget-government-has-no-plans-for-sports-woyome\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"2018 Budget: Government has no plans for sports \u2013 Woyome - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Member of Parliament for South Tongu, Kobla Mensah Woyome Ghana\u2019s Parliamentary Select Committee member on Sports, Kobla Mensah Woyome, has described the Finance Minister\u2019s refusal to mention government plans for sports as disappointing during Wednesday\u2019s Budget presentation. 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