BT Baba - GOC Boss and Nii Nortey Duah A few weeks after the Muntaka Mubarak debacle, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports is in the news again.
This time, plans by the ministry to uproot the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) president, B.T. Baba, has been uncovered, with many stakeholders saying the machinations will go against the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2012 elections.
A sports administrator who wished to remain anonymous said, “What this party is doing is indeed killing the 32 sporting associations in the country.
“B.T. Baba has done a lot for the Ghana Olympic Committee, and because of 'job for the boys' the NDC administration wants to throw him out.”
It was gathered that with a day to the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) congress in Accra, the chairmen of almost all the national sports associations have been given the sack. What drew suspicion was the secrecy with which the exercise was undertaken.
Sports gurus like B.T. Baba, Moses Foh-Amoaning and Sandy Osei-Agyemang, chairmen of National Handball, Boxing, and Athletics associations respectively, were given the boot. This lends credence to prior speculations that the Atta Mills Administration is hell-bent on politicising the country's sports, even at its detriment.
DAILY GUIDE SPORTS' investigations revealed that some NDC big wigs are neck deep into the whole caboodle, pushing for a certain Prof Francis Dodoo- now Chairman of the Athletics Association- to be voted the GOC president.
This paper learnt that last Friday, letters were surreptitiously issued to NDC activists as executives of the various national associations, and these persons would be inducted secretly today at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, after which they would be instructed to vote Prof Dodoo as the new GOC boss at Tuesday's congress.
Interestingly, B.T. Baba is on the verge of becoming an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member; but if he is kicked out of GOC, Ghana's chance of getting a seat on the august body, would be flushed down the toilet. Attempts to get the reaction of Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Nii Nortey Dua, on the matter, proved futile.
By Mohammed Muniru Kassim
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