{"id":1269442,"date":"2022-12-23T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/i-will-be-surprised-if-ghana-is-not-able-to-host-africa-games-shaaban-mohammed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T15:01:11","slug":"i-will-be-surprised-if-ghana-is-not-able-to-host-africa-games-shaaban-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/i-will-be-surprised-if-ghana-is-not-able-to-host-africa-games-shaaban-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Will be Surprised if Ghana is Not Able to Host Africa Games\u201d &#8211; Shaaban Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Technical Director of the Ghana Cycling Federation, Shaaban Mohammed says he will be shocked if we are unable to host the Africa Games.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is seeking for a postponement of the festival to 2024 which was initially set for August next year in Accra.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/0b3888ac81ed4fd782b7a387f4178d91\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However lack of logistics, poor infrastructure and financial issues looks like hampering the chances of Ghana hosting the competition in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Shaban Mohammed spoke on yesterday\u2019s edition of the Gold Talk Sport with Adamu Muftawu.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana bid to host the tournament in 2018 and promised to build a new 50,000 seater stadium in Borteyman but the edifice is yet to see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>Four years down the lane, Ghana has not been able to raise a block let alone start building the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>But Shaaban Mohammed remains confident the festival would be able to happen if the right plans are put in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be very shocking to me if Ghana cannot host it because we have given all the plans.\u201d SHAABAN Mohammed said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBorteyman<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGhana Cycling Federation<br \/>\nShaaban Mohammed<br \/>\nShaban Mohammed<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Director of the Ghana Cycling Federation, Shaaban Mohammed says he will be shocked if we are unable to host the Africa Games. Ghana is seeking for a postponement of the festival to 2024 which was initially set for August next year in Accra. However lack of logistics, poor infrastructure and financial issues looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[671,79,85,546,17,30011,3479],"class_list":["post-1269442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-africa","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-host","tag-mohammed","tag-shaaban","tag-surprised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269442","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=1269442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}