Visa Scandal: Ghana Suspends Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports; NSA Boss

Pius Enam Hadzide

Accra, April 12, 2018//-Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 12  April, 2018, suspended from office, with immediate effect, the Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide; and the acting Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Robert Sarfo Mensah.

This follows the visa racketeering scandal involving 60 Ghanaians.

This is contained in a press release issued by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin.

This 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, according to the release.

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, it added.

Reacting to the scandal yesterday, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament (MPs) said: “We reiterate our demand that the Commonwealth Games Visa Scandal which has lowered Ghana’s image abroad and brought considerable shame to our good name as widely reported by the international press must be investigated by an independent commission of enquiry pursuant to Article 278 of the Constitution of Ghana.

“This is the only process by which the Akufo-Addo Government can be accorded any credit by the local and international community to be genuinely concerned about fighting the numerous cases of corruption in his Government.”

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