The stakeholders used the opportunity provided by the AU
Meeting to resolve the problems facing the main stakeholders – the Union of
Africa Sports Confederations (UCSA), the Association of National Olympic
Committees of Africa (ANOCA), and the Africa Association of Sports Confederation
(AASC).
They are to conduct a detailed inspection of Accra, Kumasi,
and Cape Coast, where the venues and facilities for the Games are located and
to ascertain their state of readiness for the Games.
”Thereafter, they would fix the actual dates for the Games,”
said Habu Ahmed Gumel of Nigeria, the Treasurer-General of ANOCA, who was at
the Addis Ababa meeting.
The Presidents of ANOCA, Moustaph Berraf UCSA/AASC,
Maj.-Gen. Ahmed Nasser and the Chairman of the AU Commission, Musa Faki signed
the relevant documents that assigned them roles to play to ensure the success
of the Games.
ANOCA’s presence among stakeholders is particularly
important, as an affiliate of the Olympic Movement to ensure the Games serves
largely as an Olympic qualification event.
The Games had earlier been scheduled to run from August 4th
– 19th, 2023. Ghana would be hosting the Games for the first time, even as the
opposition had been rising in opposition to the staging of the Games.
The Chairman of the Organising Committee, Kwaku Ofosu Asare
has urged the Ghanaians to support the staging of the Games as it will cost as
much to host as not to host.
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