GOVERNMENT URGED TO CONSTRUCT CAPE COAST STADIUM

 

By Felix Schmermer

The former Central Regional Minister Nana Ato Arthur has debunked the notion that the previous government did not sign any contract to construct the stadium in Cape Coast.

Nana Ato Arthur revealed this at a press conference to clarify the accusation of the Regional Minister Ama Benyiwa Doe that the contract for the new Sports Stadium was not awarded to any contractor.

To disprove those claims, the NPP was showing the contract to the attendant persons and also did name precisely the efforts and steps taken on basis of the contract to build the stadium.

As a matter of facts the project was awarded with the legal basis of a contract to the company POL-MOT Holdings SA of Poland. The contract was signed at a price of USD 25,000,000 for the construction of the new Sports Stadium, excluding external works. One important issue was also already solved, the acquisition of the land as a building ground for the stadium. It will be hard to argue against that hard fact of a written contract and the allegations should fall silent now. So that should stop the political quarrels and the focus will hopefully shift now to the importance of that project and the need to continue it.

 As a result there will be build a suitable place for physical activities. Because a construction side might not be a suitable environment to do any kind of sport, so the building should be progress as soon as possible and the construction side will flourish to a great Sports Stadium for the people of Cape Coast.

Political fights should never get in the way of the wellbeing of the people. So hopefully in not much time the people of Cape Coast can indulge in the joy of football and other sports in a new nice stadium with maybe 15 000 to 20 000 seats.

Football as the most popular sport, with the most fans in Ghana plays not only an important role in the social life; it is also a matter of politics. But to play football one important thing can’t be missing, the pitch. To serve that and other needs and for the possibility to actively do sport, the former government started the project by levelling the site for the construction of the Sports stadium at Akotokyir.

Such projects are always long term projects and over long terms it is likely that problems arise. And it also did happen in the case of the Stadium. In January 2009 the NPP had to exit the government and make space for the new government. So as usually the new government had to carry on the inherited liabilities of the former government and decide what to do with unfinished projects.

The former minister of sport signed a letter requesting for a bill of quantities and copied to kwasi Oware Jr. of Pol-Mot Holdings SA