President Akufo-Addo Suspends Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports; Acting Director General of The National Sports Authority
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has suspended from office, the
Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide and the acting
Director General of the National Sports Authority, Hon. Robert Sarfo
Mensah with immediate effect.
A statement by Communications Director Eugene Arhin stated that the
decision has been taken following preliminary investigations conducted
into the circumstances that led to the arrest of some sixty (60)
Ghanaians, who had allegedly attempted to enter Australia by false
pretences, in the on-going 21st Commonwealth Games.
The President of the Ghana Olympic Committee, Mr. Ben Nunoo Mensah;
the Board Chairman of the National Sports Authority, Hon. Kwadwo Baah
Agyeman; and the Chef-de-Maison for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Mr
Mohammed Sahnoon, have also been recalled from the Games to assist in
investigations currently being undertaken by the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) of the Police Service.
This comes after 60 Ghanaians who were in Australia for the upcoming
commonwealth games were detained and deported for acting as journalists.
According to Australian authorities, they were not convinced by the
reasons given by those so-called journalists for traveling to the
country.
Even though those deported had genuine visas, many didn’t carry
equipment like recorders and recommended mobile phones for coverage.
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