By
Abebe Dawuni, GNA
Yendi (NR) July 22.
GNA – A nine – day 22nd Edition of the Basic School Inter – District sports festival is under way at the Yendi
senior High School sports oval in the Yendi Municipality of Northern Region.
Twenty-six Basic
Schools are competing in soccer, handball, Net ball, volley ball, table tennis,
and Athletics and cross country.
Some of the
competing Basic Schools are from the, Tamale Metropolitan, Yendi Municipal,
Bole district, East Mamprusi
District, Nanumba North
Municipal, Tatale/Sanguli District, Sawla /Tuna / Kalba District, Mion District
among others,
In an address read
on his behalf Mr Salifu Saeed the Northern Regional Minister indicated that the
essence of the competition was to promote and enhance a strong bond of
friendship, brotherhood and love among the sports boys and girls
It is also to offer them the opportunity to
select a formidable team for the region.
He announced that
the teams would represent the region in the upcoming Inter-Regional sports
festival in Koforidua from August 24 to September 2, this year.
He hoped that the
selected Athletes would be dedicated, respectful and obedient ambassadors of
the region and noted that physical education if well planned and effectively
taught in the schools could help retain the school going age and rid out cities
and towns of dropouts.
Mr Saeed reminded
them to give equal attention to both their academic work and co-curricular
activities to become victorious in life and said sports men and women in the
country such as Abede Pele, Adjoa Bayor, Azuma Nelson, Stephen Appiah, Mubarak
Wakaso, Sulley, Muntari and a whole lot of others, all started their sporting
career like them and through discipline, hard work and determination they made
it to greater heights.
He urged them to
respect the rules and regulations of the competition and not to take the law
into their own hands.
In the opening
football match between Yendi and East Gonja, Yendi beat East Gonje One – nil
GNA