Every Premier League club to get a bus- Dr.Bawumia 

Vice President and Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia has promise to give each Premier League Club a bus when voted as President of Ghana. 

According to him, this forms part of his plans to improve the Ghana Premier League. 

He was optimistic that this would go a long way to help football club, by taking away some financial burden off them.

Dr.Bawumia said, “through the National Lotteries Authority and the Gaming Commission to establish and fund a Sports Employment Module to assist Premier League clubs fund

operational expenses, including player remuneration, and provide a bus each to Premier League Clubs.”

The flagbearer made this promise when speaking at the NPP Manifesto launch in Takoradi on Sunday. 

Dr.Bawumia added that his administration would be committed to the improvement of sports facilities by contracting more AstroTurf. 

Additionally he revealed that each new region would get a new sports stadium including Sunyani which is one of the hubs for football in the country. 

He added that his government “will build six (6) 5,000-seater capacity, standard stadiums for the new regions, and promote school sports by establishing a Ghana School Sports Secretariat to create more opportunities for young people in sports, and collaborate with international sports bodies like the NBA

and NFL to make Ghana a hub for emerging sports in Africa.”

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme