{"id":42101,"date":"2024-08-21T00:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=42101"},"modified":"2024-08-21T00:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:28:06","slug":"gbc-director-general-refutes-3m-payment-claims-by-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/gbc-director-general-refutes-3m-payment-claims-by-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"GBC Director General refutes $3m payment claims by Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prof. Amin Alhassan, has revealed that his outfit received only $105,000, and not $3 million as speculated by the Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Sports Minister intimated that the Ministry had paid over $3 million to GBC for their coverage of the 13th All African Games during a session with the Public Accounts Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"Hearts of Oak secure signing of defender Yahaya Adraman\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/hearts-of-oak-secure-signing-of-defender-yahaya-adraman\/\">Hearts of Oak secure signing of defender Yahaya Adraman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But in sharp contrast to the assertions that GBC had received the said amount, Prof. Alhassan refuted the claims made by the Minister in an interview on GTV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We facilitated payments to foreign third parties who came in to do the production and not for the benefit of GBC. GBC&#8217;s benefit, I repeat, is $105,000 <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> that is what we got.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"Fatawu Issahaku shines on Premier League debut\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fatawu-issahaku-shines-on-premier-league-debut\/\">Fatawu Issahaku shines on Premier League debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Public Accounts Committee will continue their sitting tomorrow to ascertain the veracity of the claims made by their respective government agencies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prof. Amin Alhassan, has revealed that his outfit received only $105,000, and not $3 million as speculated by the Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). &nbsp; The Sports Minister intimated that the Ministry had paid over $3 million to GBC for their coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8417,14057],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-ghana-football"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/prof-alhassan.png?fit=734%2C465&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-aX3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42091,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/we-paid-gbc-3m-for-all-african-games-coverage-mustapha-ussif\/","url_meta":{"origin":42101,"position":0},"title":"We paid GBC $3m for All African Games coverage \u2013 Mustapha Ussif","author":"Raphael Bannerman-Quartey","date":"August 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Minister for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif has disclosed that it paid $ 3 million to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) for the 2024 All African Games. \u00a0 The 13th All African Games was staged in Accra in March which saw several participating countries on the continent partake. 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