Ghana News–Former Deputy Sports minister; Joseph Yammin says he does not understand why the Minister for sports should remain at post while his deputy and other’s are being suspended.
He believes the Minister knows everything about everything that happened as far as the Commonwealth games in Australia is concerned and cannot claim not to have been aware of happenings under his watch.
It emerged that about 60 Ghanaians who travelled to Australia for the Commonwealth Games as journalists, athletes and officials were imposters and some have since been deported. The Ghana Olympic Committee has been accused of facilitating the acquisition of visas.
Deputy Sports Minister Pius Enam Hadzide and the acting Director General of the National Sports Authority, Robert Sarfo Mensah and Board Chair of the National Sports Authority; Kwadwo Baah Agyeman have subsequently been suspended following preliminary investigations conducted into the circumstances by the Criminal Investigation Department.
Pius Hadzide is the Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Committee.
Joseph Yammin who was speaking on Abusua fm morning show believes the Sports Minister; Isaac Kwame Asiamah should have been the first to go.
“The same principle that is cited for the suspension of his deputies and the others applies to him as well”, he said and explained that it can never be true that the minister knew nothing of what happened. “I am not saying this as an NDC politician but as someone who has been on that seat…everything first gets to the minister’s desk and then is minuted for official action”, Yammin explained.
He said he was shocked President Akufo-Addo who has been in government for a long time accepts that the Sports Minister knows nothing about the scandal.
He went ahead to accuse the government of sacrificing Alan Kyeremanten boys within the government.
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