“First to appear before the Committee was the Minister-designate for the Ministry of Youth and Sports Hon. Opoku Bobie,

“First to appear before the Committee was the Minister-designate for the Ministry of Youth and Sports Hon. Opoku Bobie, a former banker who was previously the Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister and later the Ahafo Regional Minister when the region was split into three.
If he goes through successful vetting, the 46 year old Member of Parliament for Asunafo North will join the substantive Minister Hon. Mustapha Ussif at the Ministry responsible for youth and sporting activities in the country.
The Deputy Youth and Sports Minister-Designate told the Committee that the Ministry would not allow the country’s sporting facilities to deteriorate as it has put in place measures to make them modern sporting edifices in a bid to improve the sporting infrastructure.
On calls for the decoupling of the Ministry of Youth from Sports to allow it to prioritize youth development issues and effectively play its oversight role in ensuring the development of capacity and to co-ordinate efforts in youth development, he said it is not in the best interest since majority of stakeholders in Sports are the youth.-” Parliament of Ghana