{"id":440855,"date":"2017-11-24T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/24\/national-sports-college-in-terrible-state-due-to-neglect-by-government\/"},"modified":"2017-11-24T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:00:25","slug":"national-sports-college-in-terrible-state-due-to-neglect-by-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/24\/national-sports-college-in-terrible-state-due-to-neglect-by-government\/","title":{"rendered":"National Sports College in terrible state due to neglect by government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 24 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>atinkaonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-24<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/75642568.295.jpg\" alt=\"HOSTEL Sports College\" title=\"HOSTEL Sports College\" width=\"295\" height=\"148\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The National Sports College was established by the PNDC government in 1984<\/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=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511550025_469_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Sports College, formerly Winneba Sports College has been in a sorrowful state due to its neglect by the government over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The neglect by government highlights the poor maintenance culture in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The National Sports College (NSC, Winneba) was established by the erstwhile PNDC Government in 1984 under S.M.C. Decree No.54, 1976. <\/p>\n<p>At the time of its establishment, Ghana\u2019s performance in sports at the international level was experiencing a downward slide as a result of the exodus of the sectors technical and human resource for greener pastures. <\/p>\n<p>The College accordingly was charged with the responsibility of training and re-training the country\u2019s technical and human resource in the Sports sector to fill the vacancies created by the exodus of our trained and skilled officials to sustain the development and promotion of Sports in Ghana.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n The Government of Ghana has promised to transform the National Sports College following the institution&#8217;s current poor state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Many people think the Sports College is no longer in existence but is very active,\u201d Mrs. Adams Florence, Public Relations Officer for the college told Atinka TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you already know, we develop talent, soccer academy and from time to time we run courses for soccer coaches and coaches in other disciplines,\u201d she added<\/p>\n<p>As the only institution which is aimed at nurturing and training sportsmen and women for the nation, the college is yet to receive any financial support from the state.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Hon Ken Ofori-Attah during the 2018 Budget statement revealed  that government will ensure the Sports institution be \u201ctransformed into a center of Excellence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Atinka TV Sports Court team visited the institution to observe at firsthand the current state of the college. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022Dining Hall: It is in good state compared with other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Guest House: This house has 25 rooms that accommodate sports coaches and officials who come to offer their short-term courses. However, its current state is not encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Tennis Court: That tennis court purposely established for sportsmen and women to polish their talent as professional tennis players. It contains 8 court but being left in a deplorable state. The developers left a huge land back the court set use for swimming pool for the student, but now turns refuse dump. Floodlights not working.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Football Pitch: A very nice pitch was constructed for the college but lack maintenance culture, tartan track very bad for athletes to train on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Hostel Facility: The hostel was supposed to accommodate only sportsmen and women in the college but now they being \u201cperched\u201d by some students of University of Education \u2013 Winneba and reason for that arrangement is unknown. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maintenance of this place has been the problem because funds from the government were not coming so keeping our things and reformation became difficult for us that\u2019s why some of the facilities were in the state you found them,\u201d Mrs. Adams Florence revealed<\/p>\n<p>The Institution currently has 68 students- both newcomers and continuing students.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n According to Atinka TV investigations, the Late Mr. Erasmus Adorkor during his time as director for the college, allegedly misappropriated some monies accrued from the onward transfer of former Asante Kotoko duo Samuel Nkoom and Michael Anabah and also former Satellite star Abeiku Quansah who were all products of the college. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYea hmm seriously it is difficult for me to speak about it  because you know we don\u2019t speak ill of the dead by Akan customs. However, since it is the public domain what can I say? it\u2019s true that Samuel Nkoom, Michael Anabah, and Abeiku Quansah\u2019s onward transfer fees were never accounted for.\u201d Collins Aduafo (Windy Professionals Team Manager) told Atinka TV<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started this fight against him (late Erasmus Adorkor) but nothing positive came out from it and its unfortunate, maybe God knows the reason why he took him early from us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The current Director for National Sports College, Mr. Eric Dwamenah who just assumed office about 5months ago told Atinka TV that he has all the collective data of the problems facing the institution and has promised to seek for funds to start the renovation process to revive the college.<\/p>\n<p>The National Sports College which has unearthed National Stars previously is now in debt.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>Sports News of Friday, 24 November 2017 Source: atinkaonline.com 2017-11-24 The National Sports College was established by the PNDC government in 1984 The Sports College, formerly Winneba Sports College has been in a sorrowful state due to its neglect by the government over the years. 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