Ghanaian youth have been called upon to take active interest in sports so that they would remain healthy at all times.
Mr Abdulram Rahim, Assemblyman for Nkwantanag Electoral Area in the Madina-Abokobi Constitutency of the Greater Accra Region, made the call at the inauguration of the Swan Clinic Area Keep Fit Club at Madina near Accra on Saturday. This brings to 247, the number of keep fit clubs in the Greater Accra Region and 1,240 nationwide.
The club has Isaac Adom as Chairman, Frank Adu, Vice Chairman, Klenam Anani, Secretary, Oscar Kissi Adjabeng, Organizer, Isaac Boakye, Head Coach and Miss Sena Pierette, Women's Commissioner. Mr Rahim charged the members of the club to be discipline, law-abiding and respect authority and fight for a common goal. The Assemblyman also advised them not to see the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) exercise as a fluke but rather as an opportunity for them to better their standard of living and register in their numbers.
Mr. K. Adomako Boakye, Executive Member of the National Sports For All Association of Ghana (NASFAAG) also advised them to take their training seriously and abide by the rules and reregulations that govern the club. He asked all keep fit clubs, who had not register with the association, to do so to be recognized by it . Mr Adomako Boakye, on behalf of the associaton presented two footballs, one basketball and a volleyball to the newly-inaugurated club.
Source: GNA
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