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A Committee for Professional Boxing Stakeholders of Ghana has accused some politicians and individuals of the National Sports Authority of masterminding the Ghana Boxing Authority’s inability to elect a new executive from congress.The mandate of the current Samir Captan led administration ended over a year ago on June 28, 2011 but there appears to be no immediate plans of democratically handing over to a new executive.This has caused some agitation among stakeholders of the sport.A scheduled meeting between the Sports Ministry, the National Sports Authority and a committee for Professional Boxing Stakeholders scheduled to have taken place earlier today (Tuesday July 17) was called off by the chief development officer of the National Sports Authority, Erasmus Adorkor, after several failed attempts, causing some agitation in the GBA.
The stakeholders say their efforts to follow due process in having a new GBA executive elected have been thwarted by officials of the National Sports Authority, some government officials and persons of high influence.A member of the stakeholders, Abdul Rashid Williams told JOY Sports “ it is the National Sports Authority’s Mr Adorkor and Worlanyo Agrah who are failing to take up their responsibilities because they have been ordered by the minister (of youth and sports) to go ahead with congress. All the thirty-two associations of the National Sports Authority have gone to congress except the Ghana Boxing Authority which is being influenced by some politicians. We know those politicians, they are from Odododiodo and we are telling them to stop.”Another trainer and member of the stakeholders’ committee, Napoleon Tagoe threatened “we are telling this administration and the Sports Authority, if we don’t hear anything about this election, we are going to advise ourselves. We are going to register the greater Accra Professional Boxing Association because we have about forty-two gyms and a lot of boxers in Greater Accra Region. We are not going to work under the GBA, this is democracy.”Ghana’s four representatives in Amateur boxing for the imminent London 2012 Olympic Games could be affected if steps are not taken quickly to arrest the situation.
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