The Minister Designate for Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams, believes the Ghana Education Trust (GET) Fund will be key to the development of growing sports at the education level.
According to him, the Sports ministry, under his leadership, will look to empower grassroots sports especially the school sports which was a source of sports personality in the past.
Sports at junior high and senior high schools were key to developing talents in past years with the production of athletes such as Asamoah Gyan, Michael Essien, Benjamin Azamati and Rose Yeboah in recent times.
The trend, however, has fallen off with Adams looking to reach an understanding with the Ministry of Education to bring it back to life.
“We need to go back to the grassroots sports in terms of the academicals, the school sports, we need to begin to look at it,” he said in an interview with Joy Sports.
I will be sitting with my colleague Minister for Education once I get confirmed, for us to see how we can re-introduce school sports and get the sports Ministry to run School sports while GES [Ghana Education Service] continues to teach the Physical Education as a subject in the classroom but in terms of School Sports, the Sports Ministry can take up that responsibility and we will engage and see how a portion of the GETFUND can be allocated into a sports fund to fund some of these activities.”
The 49-year-old is expected to replace Mustafa Ussif, who served as Minister of Sports from 2021.
