{"id":1138280,"date":"2022-06-30T11:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/minister-raises-cash-for-qatar-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:43:51","slug":"minister-raises-cash-for-qatar-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/minister-raises-cash-for-qatar-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Raises Cash For Qatar 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mustapha Ussif (3rd L) in a group picture with the committee members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, has inaugurated a six-member committee tasked to raise funds for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is chaired by Deputy Sports Minister, Evans Opoku Bobbie, who will undertake a number of activities in order to raise funds\u00a0required to complement government\u2019s support for Ghana\u2019s participation at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Minister, in a statement, disclosed that Ghana will be participating in tournaments such as the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the Women\u2019s U-20 FIFA World Cup in Costa Rica, World Athletics Championship in Oregon and the 2023 AFCON qualifiers, thus the need for support from corporate Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSports have contributed significantly to the country\u2019s economy in a variety of ways over the years. As a result, bringing in corporate entities to support us will strategically position our sports as a major economic driver,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members on the six-member committee are,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hon.\u00a0John Ampontuah Kumah\u00a0(Dep. Minister of Finance),<\/p>\n<p>Hon. George Mireku Duker (Dep. Minister of Lands &#038; Natural Resources),<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Andrew Egyapa Mercer (Dep. Minister of Energy),<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Akwasi Agyemamg (CEO of Ghana Tourism Authority &#038; Rep of GFA),<\/p>\n<p>the Ministry\u2019s Chief Accountant, Mrs Irene Sakyi (Secretary to the Committee) are also members of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mustapha Ussif (3rd L) in a group picture with the committee members Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, has inaugurated a six-member committee tasked to raise funds for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The committee is chaired by Deputy Sports Minister, Evans Opoku Bobbie, who will undertake a number of activities in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[417,1223,2457,776],"class_list":["post-1138280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cash","tag-minister","tag-qatar","tag-raises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}