Former Minister for Youth and Sports Nii Lante Vanderpuye has launched a scathing attack on the Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah about his comments on infrastructural development.

The former sports journalist responded to the incumbent sports minister who said his regime "is going to be regarded as the best in terms of sports infrastructure" during a press briefing of Covid-19 on sports.

"I don't normally do politics with sports but I have received so many complaints from people in sports as to what is happening in sports. This government is not doing enough for sports," the MP for Odododiodio constituency told Joy Sports.

"Somebody will get up and say they are building infrastructure, what infrastructure are they building? We have football fields where we play league matches, Premier League, Division 1 and 2. If you leave those fields and go and do recreational parks in some areas where we don't even have football clubs, you are not developing infrastructure, you are not."

The Kumasi Sports Stadium is currently under renovation. However, Nii Lante believes it has ben long overdue, "I have said the money that Asiamah (Sports Minister) has used to go and build a park at Atwima Mponua should have been used to develop the pitch at the Kumasi sports stadium so that Kotoko players will have a better pitch to play on, to avoid injuries." Nii Lante said.

"It will also make the match interesting, the cameras will pick very good matches, the players will play beautiful football and it will attract more sponsors and more fans. You must put your money where you are going to derive benefit because that player that you have made a pitch for at Atwima Mponua, if he becomes Abedi Pele or Tony Yeboah, he will come and play Kotoko or King Faisal or Corners or Godfields on a bad pitch. So why do you use money to go and build a field at Atwima Mponua, at Walewale because of the Vice-president?, he quizzed.

The veteran sports commentator went on to accuse Asiamah's ministry of misusing resources for development, "today, the best pitch we have in Ghana is the Cape Coast stadium. Was it build by this government? Was the Bukom Arena build by this government? What are they talking about? I don't want to talk but the issue is simple. They are not being pragmatic. What they are doing is political development. They are not doing national development, developing pitches in their constituencies. People should think and not do things just to please people and to deceive people. They are wasting money and one day, people will answer for it, misapplication of resources."