{"id":3057,"date":"2024-08-21T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2024-08-21T01:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:38:17","slug":"gbc-boss-corrects-sports-minister-stating-actual-payment-for-african-games-was-105000-a-far-cry-from-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"GBC Boss corrects Sports Minister, stating actual payment for African Games was $105,000, a far cry from $3 million."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/17184505.295-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3058\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Amin Alhassan, Director-General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has debunked claims that the state broadcasting network was paid $3 million to cover the 2023 African Games.<br><br>Prof. Alhassan stated categorically that GBC earned $105,000 from their coverage and not $3 million, as revealed by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, during his appearance before the Public Accounts Committee.<br><br>\u201cI want to state that GBC\u2019s total benefit from the African Games was $105,000. Nothing more was paid to GBC,\u201d he said in an interview with Uniq FM.<br><br>He further indicated that GBC was only notified to broadcast the Games about a month before the start.<br><br>\u201cThe GBC was invited to the table barely one month before the Games.\u201d<br><br>Meanwhile, the Minister, during his meeting with the Public Accounts Committee on Monday, August 19, 2024, mentioned that his ministry paid $3 million to GBC to broadcast the games.<br><br>\u201cYes, GBC was the official broadcaster for the 13th All African Games, and I can confirm that full payment has been made to GBC. I can\u2019t remember the exact amount but I know that it is in excess of $3 million,\u201d Mustapha Ussif said.<br><br>The minister&#8217;s revelation sparked a public uproar as many Ghanaians have concerns about the Ministry spending such a whopping amount on broadcasting.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Amin Alhassan, Director-General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has debunked claims that the state broadcasting network was paid $3 million to cover the 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}