The herculean task of repositioning and resetting the National Sports Authority (NSA) has received a major boost with the news that a prime piece of land the size of five football fields has been returned to the National Sports Authority in the Northern regional capital Tamale.
The recently appointed NSA Director General who is barely six weeks on the hot seat, has repeatedly chorused that the RESET of sports across every department would demand a lot of strategic planning, determination and dogged hard work.
Yaw Ampofo Ankrah has already shown early glimpses of positive stewardship with some notable innovations and interventions so far.
The Director General recently embarked on a snap working visit to the northern regional capital Tamale to meet management and staff of the NSA at the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium.
The trip was bitter sweet for the former Beach Soccer chairman as he was met with the stark reality of some rapidly deteriorating stadium facilities on the one hand, and the exciting prospect of new fresh investment and development in and investment at the famous Tamale Kaladan park.
Famously nicknamed the “sakora pitch”, the once fierce home territory of Real Tamale United has hosted countless football matches of legendary status.
The NSA delegation included Chief director Alhaji Abubakar Mahamoud who confirmed that Kaladan park is now back in the domain of the NSA following the protracted legal battle.
In addition, the authority has also successfully secured most of the encroached lands around the Kaladan park environs which will pave the way for massive investment once documentation is processed for the NSA to engage investors for developmental projects.
