Why Hearts of Oak Failed To Adhere To Covid-19 Protocols Before Resuming Training

Communication Director of Hearts of Oak, Kwame Opare Addo has justified why the club resumed training without the mandatory testing their players for Covid-19.

With the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League set to start on November 13, clubs and stakeholders have been tasked to go through a mandatory testing before they resuming training when the ban on contact sports was lifted by President Akufo Addo in his 17th address of the nation.

However, Hearts of Oak have disregarded the protocol and instead began training without testing their players.

Speaking in an interview with Asempa FM on why the clubs failed to test their players before the commencement of training, the Communication Director insisted the club was not obliged to test players before starting training.

Addo added it’ll not be of use should they test the players to come for training and go back to their various homes at the end of each session.

“We have not done any testing but we will do it,” – Opare Addo said.

“Nobody told us to do testing before resuming training, nobody said that so no one should think that we have done something wrong, we have not.

“And we are not waiting for government before we will conduct our testing, we have our own schedule”

“If you test your players to resume training from home, what will be the sense of doing that test, whiles you are even exposing that person to the rest of the world.”

“Immediately we do the test we will make sure that everybody is not going anywhere and it’s not long from now that we will do it," he added.