Sports and Recreation Minister Kofi Adams has committed the Ministry of Sports and Recreation to working with the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) to complete the long-delayed OlympAfrica recreational and training centre at Amasaman, a project that has been repeatedly set back by illegal encroachment on the land.
Adams made the pledge during his visit to the GOC’s headquarters at Olympic House in Accra, where he met GOC President Richard Akpokavie and the full board to discuss athlete welfare, infrastructure and preparations for upcoming international competitions. “We are aware of your longstanding recreational and training centre project at Amasaman which is being encroached by squatters. I am happy to say that the Ministry of Sports and Recreation will work with the GOC on the OlympAfrica Project at Amasaman to ensure it is completed for use,” he said.
The OlympAfrica centre, which forms part of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) continental development network, is intended to serve as a dedicated training and welfare facility for Ghanaian athletes. Its completion has been delayed for several years due to land encroachment issues that successive administrations have failed to resolve.
Adams also assured the GOC that the Ministry would continue to support athletes currently enrolled on the Olympic Scholarship programme and expressed satisfaction with the board’s management of athlete development and international competition planning.
Akpokavie briefed the Minister on the GOC’s current programmes, including preparations for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the upcoming Youth Olympics. He thanked Adams for what he described as a new spirit of genuine collaboration between the two bodies, and pledged the GOC’s full commitment to working with the government to address funding, infrastructure and welfare gaps across Ghanaian sport.
