The Executive Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the 2023 African Games, Dr. Kwaku Ofosu-Asare, says protesting volunteers for the recently concluded competition were misinformed about stipends.
The volunteers clashed with the police on Wednesday at the Games Village in Legon over what they believed was a promised package due them.
Over 1,000 people availed themselves to serve as volunteers for the organization of the continental event.
Exactly four days after the end of the Games, the volunteers were asked to depart from their lodges with no financial reward.
"There was miscommunication, misunderstanding, they did not get it well. I said give me a definition of volunteerism. The letter given to them, there was nothing about monetary consideration,” Ofosu-Asare told JoySports in an exclusive interview.
"I won't fault them too much because when they got evicted [residence], the hostels that were used [belong to] private people.
"Right now, they arrange to give them some money to go home. They got a lot of things wrong that we are paying dollars to external volunteers. No external volunteers came. We did not have external volunteers.”
The African Games which officially began on March 8 lasted for 16 days as Ghana clinched 69 medals.
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