{"id":1167852,"date":"2022-08-05T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/lets-use-accra-2023-to-stimulate-the-economy-loc-chairman\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:39:54","slug":"lets-use-accra-2023-to-stimulate-the-economy-loc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/lets-use-accra-2023-to-stimulate-the-economy-loc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Use Accra 2023 To Stimulate The Economy \u2013 LOC Chairman |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Executive Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the 13th African Games, Dr. Kwaku Ofosu-Asare, is rallying Ghanaians to support the August 4, 2023 Games.<\/p>\n<p>Today, August 4, 2022, is exactly 365 days to the opening ceremony of the continental showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s capital \u2013 Accra, will host over 3000 technical officers, journalists, and global celebrities with a TV and online audience of over 5.5 billion next August.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from his base in Birmingham where the LOC is currently attending the\u00a0Commonwealth Games Observer Overview Programme\u00a0Dr. Ofosu-Asare believes the Games present a great opportunity to energise the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to take advantage of this opportunity and prepare very well to host the Games and benefit from it and I believe that we stand a chance of benefiting from it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ripple effects on our economy would be staggering. If you look at how businesses are benefitting from the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham we can do the same,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Games will witness 10 to 15 days of exciting contests of brain and brawn by about 5000 elite athletes and coaches from over 50 African countries in over 20 carefully selected sporting disciplines.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Accra2023ag.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the 13th African Games, Dr. Kwaku Ofosu-Asare, is rallying Ghanaians to support the August 4, 2023 Games. Today, August 4, 2022, is exactly 365 days to the opening ceremony of the continental showpiece. Ghana\u2019s capital \u2013 Accra, will host over 3000 technical officers, journalists, and global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[813,4159,1963,1612,7048,13357],"class_list":["post-1167852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-accra","tag-chairman","tag-economy","tag-lets","tag-loc","tag-stimulate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167852","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=1167852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}