The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prof. Amin Alhassan says the $3 million reported to have given to the state broadcaster for the live coverage of the 13th African Games is “false”.
He described the quoted figure as “shocking” after the Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif told the Public Accounts Committee session on Monday that the state broadcaster had been paid more than $3 million for coverage.
Prof. Amin Alhassan, however, told GBC in an interview that his leadership only received $105,000.
He explained that the said amount was intended as support for GBC’s decision to dedicate an entire channel to the African Games on GTV Sports Plus.
“Yesterday I was one of those who were shocked to learn that the Minister of Youth and Sports said that they have paid GBC in excess of $3 million. And I want to assure every Ghanaian in the public that GBC’s total benefit from the African Games was $105,000 equivalent, nothing more was paid as a benefit to GBC.
“And that payment of $105,000 was in support of the fact that we dedicated an entire channel for 24 hours. We suspended normal programming for the GTV Sports Plus, and we dedicated it to the African Games and for our role as the official broadcaster.” He noted.
