President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has charged the newly installed Sports and Recreation Minister, Kofi Adams to rebuild other sporting disciplines providing a hint that the NDC member of Parliament can begin the resetting process from the Ghana Football Association.
The president’s comments come after a swearing-in ceremony of the Buem Constituency’s Member of Parliament, Kofi Iddie Adams and a host of others on Friday, February 7, 2025, at the Jubilee House.
Ghana has become a sleeping giants in recent years and has utterly lost its fearsome factor when it matters sports and especially football and new the government will an urgent need a reset to rewrite the story.
The Black Stars failed to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be staged in Morocco. This follows back-to-back group stage exits in the last two editions which followed a round of sixteen exit in 2019.
In the latest episode the African Nations Cup, the Black Stars could not pick a single win again a group opponents Sudan, Angola and Niger in the qualifying round missed out the AFCON for the first time since 2004.
The Black Galaxies, Ghana’s U23 also failed to appear the CHAN 2025 tournament scheduled for August after proving too light for Nigeria on the play-offs.
Currently, the struggling domestic top flight league is forcibly on hold following incidents hooliganism.
Sporting infrastructure is deteriorating, funding remains inadequate, and governance issues continue to cripple progress amid poor maintenance culture.
Other lesser known sporting disciplines such as boxing, athletics, badminton, tennis etc have seen perennial underfunding and many have called for investments into these areas to develop talents.
There is a huge expectation for the Minister to effect results-driven changes and policies ensure development in other sports.
“The Honourable Kofi Adams, Minister for Sports and Recreation, I don’t envy your job,” Mahama said.
“You have the monumental task of restoring Ghana to its pride of place in African and world sports.”
“The shambles that Ghana’s sports have become today are completely unacceptable for a country with our pedigree.” he said.
“I expect that you will concentrate on building up on othe sports disciplines and I know the Ghana Football Association will be a good place to start to work to restore Black Stars to its glory days,” he added.
