Sports and Recreation Minister-Designate, Kofi Adams, has expressed serious concern over the standard of astro turfs built in the country in recent years.
He registered this concern when he appeared before the Parliamentary Vetting Committee after his nomination by Ghana President John Dramani Mahama.
In his session, the Sports Minister who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Buem Constituency, made it known that he has plans to get the National Sports Authority (NSA) to play the role it is supposed to play before touching on concerns connected to the astro turfs. (Click highlighted text to read full story)
“I have some concerns about the astro turfs. Some of them truly speaking, have not been constructed to standard. In one instance, it resulted in a very serious injury to the head of a player…so we will look at them, the ones that are not standard, in order to avoid some of these injuries, maybe we don’t use them for football but we can use them for other sports and recreational activities.”
The construction of community based astro turfs was a flagship program under immediate past Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif.
