Mr. Ben Nunoo-Mensah, President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has secured 11 sponsors for the committee in his two-year administration.
He revealed this during the GOC’s 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) held yesterday at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).
Ben Nunoo Mensah said “When we took over, the GOC had only one headline sponsor that was Cocoa From Ghana but now we have secured additional sponsors with various terms and conditions. These are; PaySwitch Ghana Mc Dan Group, Mobility International, Decker Engineering, Directline Risk Consult, Toyota Ghana, Ashfoam, Allied Oil, Republic Bank, Indomie and Twellium Industries”
“We are on the verge of signing MoUs with Toyota Ghana and Ashfoam Company Limited as our Headline Sponsors for 2020. We are also signing another MoU with Papaye to be the official Meal Sponsor for 2020. We are finalising talks with Pokoo Sports Wear of the UK to be the Official Kits Sponsors of the GOC for 2020 and renewable in September of 2020 for four years.
“We secured sponsorship from PaySwitch Ghana Limited and paid the 2018 affiliation fees for the various National Sports Federations to their International federations.
“We also gave a total of $150,000.00 to all the National Federations to help them with their various qualifies and programme for 2017, the amounts varied from $20,000.00 to $1,000.00 per federation
“Work is been done on OlympicAfrica project at Amasaman. We started work on the site by clearing the place at a cost of GHȻ35,000.00 paid by Decker Engineering.
“We also managed to get ANOCA to revive their interest in the stadium and made a promise to invest $150,000.00 into the project once it got started. They have requested for new drawings so they can also make some inputs to fit its intended purpose. The IOC has also agreed in principle to support the development of the project and have also requested for the drawings and quantities to make an input.
“We have received about $9,270 (GH45,000) sponsorship from Cocoa from Ghana and GH₵50,000 sponsorship also from PaySwitch Ghana to invest into the project making a total of GH95,000. Only GH8, 000 of this amount has so far been disbursed. I will put together a five-man committee very soon to continue with work at the site.
“But for now I can say the Amasaman site which was once a forest has now been turned into a community park with football, netball and volleyball facilities where the youth from Amasaman and its surroundings go and do sports and keep-fit activities.”
Story: By Richard Achore
