The Member of Parliament for Ningo Pampram Samuel George has labelled people calling out musician Stonebwoy for destroying the Accra Sports Stadium pitch as unintelligent.
The Legislator instead urged them to shift the blame to the National Sports Authority (NSA) and its boss Peter Twumasi for failing to protect the grass.
The NSA closed down the Accra Sports Stadium to football club in the whole month of December and instead opted to rent it out for musical concerts.
Sam George, who attended Stonebwoy’s Bhim concert on Friday, mounted a strong defence of the musician and asked the blame be placed on the door steps of the NSA.
Read his full statement on Twitter below:
To all those talking about the pitch and all after the @stonebwoy concert, you actually do not sound very intelligent. Did you expect him to go and do grass rehabilitation? Why did he pay the National Sports Authority?
Concerts are held every off season at Wembley, Emirates, Old Trafford and other stadia. The managers there use their brains. Same cannot be said about the DG of the NSA who lied to Parliament earlier this year.
I asked him about pitch covers which are used to protect the grass everywhere else when stadia are used for non-footballing events, and he stated under oath before the Public Accounts Committee that they have some and use them.
None was used last Friday and shows that once again, the NSA DG has lied under oath. Not his first time. If you have any anger, it should be directed at him for failing to do the work yet collecting his salary for December.
I would be waiting for him the next time he appears before the Public Accounts Committee. We must learn to stop shifting the buck and hold the right people accountable.
Bono and his U2 band don’t care about the Wembley grass after they have paid for the venue and neither should Stone, Shatta or any other Ghanaian act be held responsible for someone else’s failure.
