Keta is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital town of the Keta Municipality. Keta is the sixty-first most populous settlement in Ghana with a population of 23, 207. Some parts of the town were devastated by sea erosion between the 1960s and 1980s. Keta is one of the oldest towns in Volta as well as the first regional capital of Volta region.
The people of Keta will soon get a new sports stadium as promised by a friend of Torgbui Gobah Tengey who is based in Ghana.
Almost 48 years ago, Keta had a big park called Keta Landon park which foreigners and people of Volta region used to have all their sporting activities on.
According to Torgbui Gobah Tengey, the Municipal Assembly has already secured a land in Keta for the construction of Astro turf sports stadium. If not for the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the sod cutting and construction would have started three months ago. The stadium will have a handball court, basketball court, table tennis court, and others in it.
“Yes, It’s true Keta will get a new stadium, about six months ago I wrote a letter to a friend of mine about Keta Landon park that had been destroyed by sea erosion 48 years ago and he has accepted to help us construct a new one. I quickly organized a meeting with the MCE for keta, Hon Godwin Edudzi Effah, Torgbui James Ocloo V, chief of Keta, Mama Tokormi, the Queen mother of Keta and Divine Kwadzo Dzokoto alias Kwadzo Baba in my palace in order to meet the philanthropist one on one for the construction of the stadium and we were able to meet the philanthropist at his residence to have his assurance but due to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, we haven’t done the sod cutting and to start the construction works”
Torgbui didn’t give any specific date for the commencement of the sod cutting and the construction of stadium. Torgbui is also in talks with the chiefs to help start the construction of fence wall on the land.
The stadium will be constructed close to the Keta Midwifery and Nursing training college adjacent to the Keta market square in the Keta Municipality.
Written by Wisdom Dovlo