Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) Director-General, Professor Amin Alhassan, has stated that the state broadcast company got a $105,000 “benefit” to cover the 13th African Games.
The multi-sport competition was held in Accra from March 8 to March 23 with the Legon Stadium and Borteyman Sports Complex hosting a bulk of the events.
Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, stated that GBC was paid in excess of $3 million to cover the 13th African Games when he appeared before a Public Accounts Committee sitting.
In response to a question over debts owed technical staff of GBC by Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George, Honourable Mustapha Ussif mentioned the above stated figure.
However, Professor Alhassan has stated in an interview on Uniiq FM that GBC benefitted from a financial package no where close to the amount the Sports Minister stated to the Public Accounts Committee as support for dedicating an entire channel to cover the African Games.
“I was one of those who were shocked to learn that the Minister of Youth and Sports said that they had paid GBC in excess of $3million and I want to assure every Ghanaian and the public that GBC’s total benefit from the African Games was 105,000 US Dollars equivalent.”
GBC Director-General Professor Amin Alhassan
“Nothing was more was paid as a benefit to GBC and that payment was as support for the fact that we dedicated an entire channel 24 hours we suspended normal programming for the GBS Sports Plus and we dedicated it to the African Games and for our role as the official broadcaster.”
