2024 African Games: GBC Boss has more questions to answer – PAC Chairman
Published:
2 months ago
Source:
MyJoyOnline
Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), James Klutse Avedzi says the Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Professor Amin Alhassan has some questions to answer on the 2024 All African Games payment brouhaha. This comes after the GBC Boss challenged the Sports Minister's position that 3.6 million dollars had been paid to the state broadcaster for coverage of the 2024 All African games. Read also: We received $105K for African Games coverage, not $3m - GBC Director General
Speaking on GTV, Prof. Alhassan clarified that the broadcaster received only $105,000, which was intended as support for GBC's decision to dedicate an entire channel to the African Games, thereby suspending normal programming.
"I was one of those shocked to learn that the Minister of Youth and Sports said that they have paid GBC in excess of $3 million. And I want to assure every Ghanaian in the public that GBC's total benefit from the African Games was $105,000 equivalent, nothing more was paid as a benefit to GBC.
"And that payment of $105,000 was in support of the fact that we dedicated an entire channel for 24 hours.