Sports Minister confirms buying division 1 club and explains why

mahama-ayariga1-602x360Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, has confirmed that he was in the process of acquiring Division One League club,Tamale All Stars, but dismissed claims that his action could amount to a conflict of interest.

“Yes we are in the process of taking over Tamale All Stars which we are transferring to Bawku and in fact I have applied to the GFA for the name to be changed to Bawku United,” he told Citi FM.

The Minister was quick to state that the decision to acquire a club for Bawku was motivated by a desire to harness the talent among the youth, as well as to provide recreation for a place that had been infamous for conflict.

“You may know that I am the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, and we should not lose sight of the fact that apart from my responsibilities as a minister I have specific responsibilities as a Member of Parliament to promote entertainment, youth development and sports in my community. “There are ways in which sports can be used to promote unity, and Bawku has had a troubled history of many of our young people being involved in conflict. We have been exploring ways and means of promoting togetherness and unity among the youth.

“We want to find them alternative avenues of engaging their attention instead of having them focus on negative things so we thought that having a football club for the constituency called Bawku United will rebrand Bawku. Secondly, it will provide the youth who specifically have talent in football an opportunity for their individual development,” he explained.

The move to acquire a football club has raised eyebrows in the media and the Ghanaian football fraternity with a number of individuals citing a possible conflict of interest, a situation the Minister dismissed.

“I don’t see any conflict of interest here because I don’t manager the FA so I don’t see how that will occur. “In fact the person who manages the FA is himself a club owner. “There is no way there will be a conflict of interest between my job in terms of policy formation among other things and having a team for my constituency.”

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