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0 A sports marketing consultant, Magnus Rex Danquah has advised the Sports Ministry to strengthen its regulation of sports federations, by insisting on wider coverage areas as a requirement for national status.
Magnus Rex Danquah, who was speaking at the JoySports National Dialogue under the theme of governance, questioned the rationale in according national status to federations who only operate in Accra and no other part of the country.
”No association should be national unless you can operate from a certain number of regions. Most times, people are just in Accra and they say they are national associations. No!”
He went a step further by suggesting a standard requirement of operating in a minimum of forty-five percent of the regions in Ghana.
”If you want to be a national association, you should have done the work for a certain number of regions. You can put a cap on it. Maybe not fifteen out of the sixteen regions but maybe forty-five or fifty percent of the regions so that it makes it easy for people to work at becoming a national federation or association,” he concluded.
Magnus Rex Danquah joined Sports Minister Kofi Adams, Yaw Ampofo Ankrah (Director General of the National Sports Authority), Tom Vernon (founder of the Right to Dream Academy), Tony Baffoe (former Deputy General Secretary at CAF), Mawuko Afadzinu (Executive Vice President of African Table Tennis Federation), Dr. Frank Appiah Kusi (lecturer at the University of Health and Allied Sciences), and other dignified sports managers at the JoySports National Dialogue last week.
He is a marketing consultant and the architect behind some of Ghana’s most iconic events, including the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the African Games 2023 (Accra 2023), the African Youth Football Championship (Ghana 99) etc.
