Member of Parliament for Bimbilla Constituency, Dominic Nitiwul, has called on Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, to appropriate the National Budget beyond the 65,899,456 Million Ghana Cedis allocated to the Sports and Recreation Ministry to aid the Ministry undertake major infrastructure development and maintenance in Ghana.
Sports Minister Kofi Adams has stated that the Accra Sports Stadium is the first of a handful of major sports structures to undergo renovation and improve sports infrastructure in Ghana. (Click highlighted text to read full story)
Addressing this issue on the floor of Ghana’s Parliament, Dominic Nitiwul, who is a former Minister of Defence, called for more money to be allocated to the Ministry.
“I think leadership should take up this matter and find a way of varying some money somewhere and put it here [undertaking sports infrastructure]. We cannot increase the budget but we can vary, we can re-allocate so by the time we are going to do the appropriation, we should find some money and make sure that this [Sports] Ministry has some capital expenditure to be able to undertake all the projects they want to take. It’s a very important Ministry” Nitiwul said and added that
“The Sports Minister should be supported. I want to see the Sports Minister get some capital expenditure and can spend. We cannot leave it to the discretion of the Finance Minister or the President [of Ghana] to say we will do it but it should be there so that he knows that it is there and plans towards [using] it.”
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“If we don’t start looking after them properly, in a year or two we’re going to have a big problem”
Bimbilla MP Dominic Nitiwul warns that failing to budget for capital expenditure will lead to the deterioration of sports infrastructure in the country#CitiSports pic.twitter.com/d8SLExV8A1
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