The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prof. Amin Alhassan has disputed claims by the sports Ministry that GBC was paid over $3 million for its coverage of the recently held 13th Africa games.
During a Public Accounts Committee sitting on Monday, August 19, Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif revealed that the state broadcaster was paid in excess of $3 million.
Mustapha Ussif was responding to concerns raised by Committee member Sam George over a debt owed to technical staff who worked on the games.
However, speaking on GBC, the Director-General of the state broadcaster has denied the claims, stating that the broadcaster was paid $105, 000
“I was one of those who were shocked to learn that the Minister of Youth and Sports said that they have paid GBC in excess of $3 million. And I want to assure every Ghanaian in the public that GBC’s total benefit from the African Games was $105,000 equivalent, nothing more was paid as a benefit to GBC.
“And that payment of $105,000 was in support of the fact that we dedicated an entire channel for 24 hours. We suspended normal programming for the GTV Sports Plus, and we dedicated it to the African Games and for our role as the official broadcaster.”
