Government releases GH¢10m for Legon stadium completion

pulse-ghana admin 13:35 - 18 August 2017

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The state of the art stadium would possible with the host for the 2017 edition of the WAFU tournament.

Ghana’s Youth and Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah has confirmed that government has released GH¢10m for the completion of the University of Ghana (Legon) stadium.

The project, which started about 14 years ago, has recently been stalled after its former financiers, the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) withdrew from funding the project.

The 30,000 capacity has been earmarked as a potential venue to host next year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.

Around GH¢16million will be required to finish the project and the Sports Minister has revealed that GH¢10m of that money has now been approved for works to continue.

“Government has released about GH¢10million to start constructing the Legon Sports Stadium,” Asiamah said at the end of his tour of facilities scheduled to host the upcoming WAFU tournament.

“As a government that built four new stadia in this country, we’re committed to developing the sports infrastructure in the country. We will renovate all the dilapidated stadia but we won’t rush it,” he added.