President Nana Ado Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given GH₵ 500,000 to Ghana Women’s Premier League champions, Ampem Darkoa Ladies, to boost their preparation towards the upcoming CAF Women’s Champions League.
He congratulated the team on the success and advised them to stay focused on the main task ahead and expressed optimism that the CAF Women’s Champions League trophy would also be presented to him after the competition.
This happened when the team paid a courtesy call on the President on Wednesday in Accra to present the various trophies they had won to him and also seek his blessings for the task ahead of them.
President Akufo-Addo asked the Ghana Football Association and the Youth and Sports Ministry to do well to provide the needed support to all female teams in Ghana to ensure gender equity in football.
The Ampem Darkoa Ladies team expressed profound gratitude to the President for his generosity towards them and promised to make the entire nation proud at the continental competition.
Priscilla Osei- Wusu Nimako, ISD
