A series of activities and events have taken place in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital in remembrance of the Accra stadium disaster that claimed the lives of an estimated 126 fans during a football match between Accra Hearts Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko in 2001. This year will mark the 11th remembrance of a dark and bloody tragedy in Ghana.
When one reads articles in the media one must always leave room for doubt. In recent times I have seen the reportage on events involving the spring uprising to Ivory Coast and events in Ghana.
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THE SITUATION IN LIBYA MAKES ME DECIDEDLY UNCOMFORTABLE AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY FEELINGS ABOUT GADDAFI.
The following discussion was recently held with Herbert Mensah by a concerned youth in Ghana on the issue of leadership.
It had been an incredibly hectic week in which after leaving Accra I travelled with HE Former President Rawlings and Retired General Arnold Quainoo to East Africa. We had spent time in Sudan… stopped in Kenya three times and been to Uganda as well. We had seen two Presidents and been exposed to differing protocols, cultures and delays!
A former Chief Executive of Asante Kotoko and a close friend of the Rawlings’s Mr. Herbert Mensah has rubbished the supposed list of appointments to be made by Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings when she becomes the President of the country.
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Sports enthusiast and former C. E.O of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Mr. Herbert Mensah says he has never believed in the integrity of world football’s governing body -Fifa-, adding that “the credibility of world football is at its lowest point”.
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Former Asante Kotoko Chief Executive and businessman, Herbert Mensah, is urging corporate Ghana to look to sports for investment because it offers real business opportunities.
“If as a nation, we understand that the majority of us are more powerful than the few who move around in the corridors of higher power, then we can make those same people more accountable for their actions, then we can ensure that this sort of thing never happens”.
Herbert Mensah
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Businessman and former Chairman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Mr. Herbert Mensah has stated that, former President Jerry John Rawlings does not spend his time thinking of President John Evan Attah Mills contrary of what most people think.
Herbert Mensah 