Bolgatanga Technical Centre project takes shape

The construction of the FIFA standard artificiajin88bet.onel football turf being undertajin88bet.onejin88bet.ojin88bet.oneneken by the Ghana Football Assocjin88bet.oneiation at Bolgatanga continues to make progress irrespective of the refusal of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to grant custom duties Exemption for the materials imported for the project.jin88bet.one jin88bet.onejin88bet.one

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Although the Ministry of Youth and Sports, GFA, and other key stakeholders of the region gave the application their full push, the Ministry of Finance, after a long period of consideration, rejected the Exemptak168app.babyion requested for the project materialsak168app.babyak168app.baby.

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The GFA had tks168app.siteks168app.siteo use additional FIFA Forward Project funds to clear the materials, which had been at the Tema Port since December 2022 in anticipation of receiving Duties Exemption as has been done in countries like Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone.ic88ic88ic88ks168app.site ic88ic88

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Irrespective of the challenges with custom duties, demurric88age charges, and the delays, the materials were finally cleared last Friday and have arrived at the Bolgatanga project site.ic88

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Members of the GFA and all stakeholders would recall that the GFA acquired oveic88ic88ic88r 6 acres of ic88land at Bolgatanga for the construction of the Upper East Regional Technical Centre.ic88ic88ic88

When fully completed, the centre, will ic88house the head office of the Regional Football Association, a FIFA Standard artificial football turf capable ofic88 hosting all matches, including elitic88ic88ic88ic88e domestic competitions.ic88ic88 ic88lr88

Currently, all clubs from the then Upper East Football Region (now Upper East and Savannah Regions of Ghana) which qualifies for the Premier League, Division One League and the Women’s Premier League trek to Tamale in the lr88Northern Region of Ghana to play their matches due to lack of a playing pitch that meet the minimum club Licensing requirementlr88lr88s.lr88lr88lr88ic88

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This project will become the model for all GFA Regional Technical Centres across the country.op88op88lr88op88

It must be noted that even thop88e Football for Schools Project, which will provide free si88si88footballs for 3,000 government schools, is yet to be granted tax exemption as has been done in other African countries.op88

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The si88GFA, in an attempsi88si88si88t to avoid another demurrage payment, has cleared the footballs while the Ministry of Finance considers the Exemption application from the Ministry of Education for the footballs for the schools project.si88

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It is the hope of the GFA that the Exemption issues for Sports projects such as this, and clearing of natioSEXXXXX-VNnal team jerseys which the GFA stiSEXXXXX-VNll continues to pay is brought to a logical conclusion in the not too distant future.88v

The first phSEXXXXX-VNase of the project will be completed by April this year.