2023 Africa Games: Feeding of athletes cost $15 m – Woyome reveals
Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sports, Kobina Woyome, has disclosed that a staggering $15 million was allocated for feeding athletes during the 2023 Africa Games.
As the MP for South Tongu, Wayome noted that this substantial amount covered only 18 days of the event. The documents reviewed by the committee detailed this expenditure, raising significant questions.
Wayome emphasized that the committee has formally requested a detailed breakdown of how the $15 million was utilized solely for athlete meals over the 18-day period.
He assured that a thorough investigation would be conducted to clarify these spending discrepancies.
“You are spending $245 million and out of that, we got to know that a whopping amount of $15 million was used to feed athletes for 18 days. You realize that some of these things need to be investigated.”
“We wanted to know how many athletes actually made it. How many got registered? In fact, we need to get a report from the games management system because the system must be able to tell us.
How many actually came and participated in the Games. All these details we would want to know,” he said.
The 53 countries who competed in the 13th edition of the Africa Games provided 2,644 athletes who participated in 335 events.
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