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NYA and Sports Act progressing steadily – Minister

By
Rihana Adam, GNA

Accra, Nov. 14, GNA
– Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, has said work on two Legislative
Instruments (L.I), for the National Youth Authority and Sports Acts are
progressing steadily.

He said the services
of two consultants have been secured to draft the two L.I’s to be submitted to
Parliament by the end of the year.

He said the Ministry
would continue to monitor the construction of the 10 Youth and Sports Resource
Centres of Excellence across the former 10 regions of the country.

The Centres would
provide space for sports, youth engagement, recreation and learning adding
that, progress of work on most of the construction sites were above 60 percent
of completion.

He added that, “in
2020, the Ministry would facilitate the qualification and participation of all
the National Football Teams in various international tournaments including the
Black Stars preparation and qualification to the 2021 African Cup of Nations
Tournament in Cameroon, the 2022 World Cup Tournament in Qatar, the
participation of the Black Stars Team “B” in the 2020 CHAN Cup of
Nations Tournament in Cameroon, the qualification of the U-20 Football Team to
the 2021 U-20 AFCON in Mauritania and the qualification of the Black Starlets
to the 2021 U-17 AFCON in Morocco”.

“The Ministry would
facilitate the participation of the Black Princesses as well as the Black
Maidens in their respective 2020 Women’s World Cup Qualifying Tournaments.”

He said, the
National Sports Authority (NSA) organized a 10km national cross-country event
at Daboase in the Mpohor-Wassa East District of the Western Region with
representation from all regions.

The event sought to
identify talents for long distance running and promote sports development.

The Minister said a
four-day Inter-District Sports festival aimed at unearthing talents to feed the
various National teams for future events also took place in Accra, with 25
districts in the Greater Accra Municipality participating in the festival.

He said the Ghana
Table Tennis Association (GTA) also hosted the International Table Tennis
Federation World and Africa Junior-Cadet Championships at the Trust Sports
Emporium in Accra. Ghana won one gold, one silver and six bronze medals in the
world championship category.

He said Ghana also
participated in the just ended African Games that was held in Morocco from 19th
-31st August, 2019. The National Team placed 15th with 13
medals, made up of two gold, two silver and nine bronze medals.

He said the NSA
would organize a Bi-annual Congress to review and map out strategies for the
development of sports and its Regional and District Sports Offices for better
work output.

He added that the
NSA would organize Inter-District Sports Competitions and the Ghana National
Games to unearth new talents for the various National Teams.

It will also
facilitate the participation of the National Teams in the 2020 Olympic Games in
Tokyo.

GNA 

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