President Mahama provides update on investigations into 13th African Games saga

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that his medication has commenced investigations into the funds spent during the 13th African Games hosted successful Ghana.

He noted that the assemblage successful complaint of the probe has invited individuals who were progressive successful the games to beryllium interrogated connected however the allocated wealth was expended connected items during the event.

The president stated that the nationalist volition beryllium notified astir the advancement of the probe arsenic clip goes connected and promised to guarantee that those who are implicated volition beryllium dealt with accordingly.

"A fig of officials person been invited and questioned concerning the 13th African Games," President Mahama said portion addressing the nationalist connected actions helium has taken aft 120 days successful bureau connected May 7, 2025.

This comes aft reports emerged that the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) authorities allocated $47 cardinal to the operational fund for the 2023 African Games, hosted from March 8 to March 23, 2024.

It was alleged that $15 cardinal was spent connected feeding officials and athletes.

Former sports curate Mustapha Ussif was invited by the National Investigative Bureau (NIB) for questioning; however, the details were not made known to the public.

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