The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has suspended from office, with immediate effect, the Chairperson of the Board of the National Sports Authority, Kwadwo Baah Agyeman.
This decision was communicated to the Board Chair by the Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
This is as a result of the fact that the President is absent from the jurisdiction attending the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, United Kingdom.
The reasons for his suspension were contained in a statement signed and issued by the Director of Communications at the presidency, Eugene Arhin.
The statement said just as in the cases of the suspension of the Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide and the acting Director General of the National Sports Authority, Robert Sarfo Mensah, the decision to suspend Kwadwo Baah Agyeman has been taken following preliminary investigations conducted into the circumstances that led to the arrest of some sixty (60) Ghanaians, who had allegedly attempted to enter Australia by false pretences, at the 21st Commonwealth Games.
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“The three officials, together with the President of the Ghana Olympic Committee, Ben Nunoo Mensah; and the Chef-de-Maison for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Mohammed Sahnoon, are to assist the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service in the ongoing investigations into the matter”. The statement concluded.