'Hypocritical' Ghana's ex-deputy sports minister Joseph Yamin claims increased sports budget is inadequate

Former Ghana deputy sports minister Joseph Yamin claims an over 200% budget increment for sports is woefully inadequate, a year after his government slashed funding dramatically. The claim has sparked controversy in the West African nation especially after the previous government reduced sports funding during its tenure. New Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta revealed on Thursday in Parliament that the new government has increased the figure fromGHC22 million in 2016 toGHC46.91 million this year. Despite the obvious huge capital injection into sports this year, the country's former sports minister, who supervised the embarrassing flying of cash to Black Stars players during... Read Full Story