{"id":768413,"date":"2022-01-27T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/parliament-probes-black-stars-shambolic-performance-at-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:44:29","slug":"parliament-probes-black-stars-shambolic-performance-at-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/parliament-probes-black-stars-shambolic-performance-at-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament probes Black Stars&#8217; shambolic performance at AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Par-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Parliament\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Youth, Sports and Culture Committee in Parliament has been tasked to investigate the abysmal performance of the Black Stars during the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a statement from the ranking committee member, Kobla Mensah Woyome, that highlighted the frustrations of the fans following their early exit from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The South Tongu Member of Parliament (MP) attributed the failure of the Stars to qualify from the group stage to poor management and decisions of the GFA and government.<\/p>\n<p>The statement on the floor generated uproar among members who were livid over the terrible display and tactics of the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Some of the MPs including MP for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah also demanded the dissolution of the team\u2019s management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, meanwhile wants Ghanaians to leave this heartbreaking episode behind and forgive the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, on his part, blamed the team\u2019s worst performance on the inability of the technical team to bring out the best in the players.<\/p>\n<p>The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, who was presiding over sitting, directed the sports committee to probe the issue and submit a report to the House.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CjPl8FG4F5E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nsoromma Season4 Episode 2: Kid Reality Shows - Adom TV (26-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CjPl8FG4F5E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth, Sports and Culture Committee in Parliament has been tasked to investigate the abysmal performance of the Black Stars during the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations. This follows a statement from the ranking committee member, Kobla Mensah Woyome, that highlighted the frustrations of the fans following their early exit from the tournament. The South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768413","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=768413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}