{"id":112432,"date":"2026-01-23T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=112432"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:57:10","slug":"sports-minister-inaugurates-11-member-ghana-sports-fund-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=112432","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister inaugurates 11-member Ghana Sports Fund board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Minister for Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams, has inaugurated an 11-member Governing Board for the Ghana Sports Fund, describing the move as a critical step towards establishing structured, predictable and accountable funding for the country\u2019s sports sector.<\/p>\n

The ceremony, held at the Ministry in Accra, marked the operationalisation of the Ghana Sports Fund, which was established under Act 1159 following the passage of the Sports Fund Bill by Parliament in December 2025.\u00a0
\nThe Fund is expected to mobilise and manage resources transparently to support athlete development, grassroots programmes, sports infrastructure, capacity building and high-performance preparation.
\nAddressing the newly sworn-in board members, Mr Adams said the Fund was designed to address the long-standing challenges of uneven and reactive funding that have hampered sports development in Ghana.
\n\u201cIts purpose is simple but powerful: to introduce planning where there was uncertainty, equity where there was imbalance, and accountability where there was discretion,\u201d he said.
\nHe charged the board with a significant national responsibility and urged them to uphold fairness, transparency and strategic thinking in all their decisions.
\n\u201cThis Fund must serve sport, not interests. It must reward performance, not proximity, and invest in systems, not shortcuts,\u201d the Minister stressed, adding that the board\u2019s independence and integrity would determine the Fund\u2019s success in transforming Ghana\u2019s sporting ecosystem.
\nThe board is chaired by Prof. Koryoe Anim-Wright and includes Dr David Kofi Wuaku (Administrator), Mrs Wilhelmina Asamoah (Chief Director), Mr Duah Alhassan Oteng (Technical Advisor), Mrs Deborah Adei Djanie (Director, HRMD), Mr Yaw Ampoo Ankrah (Director-General), Mr Ernest Thompson, Azumah Nelson, Ms Belinda Plange, Hon. Rachel Florence Appoh and Hon. Dickson Kyere-Duah. The membership brings together seasoned professionals, administrators and sports icons, including the legendary boxer Azumah Nelson.
\nMr Adams expressed confidence in the board\u2019s capacity to deliver on its mandate, noting that effective governance of the Fund would help shift Ghana from mere participation in sports to sustained excellence, with positive impacts on athletes, federations and communities across the country.<\/p>\n

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The Minister for Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams, has inaugurated an 11-member Governing Board for the Ghana Sports Fund, describing the move as a critical step towards establishing structured, predictable and accountable funding for the country\u2019s sports sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ceremony, held at the Ministry in Accra, marked the operationalisation of the Ghana Sports Fund, which was established under Act 1159 following the passage of the Sports Fund Bill by Parliament in December 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Fund is expected to mobilise and manage resources transparently to support athlete development, grassroots programmes, sports infrastructure, capacity building and high-performance preparation.<\/p>\n

Addressing the newly sworn-in board members, Mr Adams said the Fund was designed to address the long-standing challenges of uneven and reactive funding that have hampered sports development in Ghana.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts purpose is simple but powerful: to introduce planning where there was uncertainty, equity where there was imbalance, and accountability where there was discretion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He charged the board with a significant national responsibility and urged them to uphold fairness, transparency and strategic thinking in all their decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Fund must serve sport, not interests. It must reward performance, not proximity, and invest in systems, not shortcuts,\u201d the Minister stressed, adding that the board\u2019s independence and integrity would determine the Fund\u2019s success in transforming Ghana\u2019s sporting ecosystem.<\/p>\n

The board is chaired by Prof. Koryoe Anim-Wright and includes Dr David Kofi Wuaku (Administrator), Mrs Wilhelmina Asamoah (Chief Director), Mr Duah Alhassan Oteng (Technical Advisor), Mrs Deborah Adei Djanie (Director, HRMD), Mr Yaw Ampoo Ankrah (Director-General), Mr Ernest Thompson, Azumah Nelson, Ms Belinda Plange, Hon. Rachel Florence Appoh and Hon. Dickson Kyere-Duah. The membership brings together seasoned professionals, administrators and sports icons, including the legendary boxer Azumah Nelson.<\/p>\n

Mr Adams expressed confidence in the board\u2019s capacity to deliver on its mandate, noting that effective governance of the Fund would help shift Ghana from mere participation in sports to sustained excellence, with positive impacts on athletes, federations and communities across the country.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}