May 9 Disaster: Improvement in infrastructure will help avert such occurrences in future
Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kurt Okraku emphasized the crucial need for enhanced education among Ghana's football stakeholders during an interview at a commemorative event marking the 23rd Anniversary of the May 9 Disaster.
The May 9 Disaster remains one of the most tragic incidents in African football history, resulting in the loss of 127 lives due to a stampede during a league match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko in 2001.
Present at the event were Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif and Christopher Annan, Secretary and Welfare Officer of the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster Trust Fund, among others.
Okraku underscored the strides made in bolstering security measures during league matches to avert any recurrence of such a catastrophe.
“The GFA obviously relying on our internal governance structure has improved a lot on our club licensing strategy which obviously makes demands on members to provide adequate security and to behave in a certain way.
“Overtime, I would confidently say that we have improved alongside improvement in physical stadia facilities and this has greatly helped but there is a lot to be done.”
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