According to reports, Kurt Okraku, the President of the Ghana Football Association, led the negotiations for professional women footballers to secure slots in the Youth Employment Agency initiative.
It has been revealed that 500 female footballers will be paid for six months in the ''Youth in Elite Sports for Ghana Programme.''
Kurt has been given full marks for helping the dream become a reality.
Chief Executive Officer of Youth Employment Agency, Justin Kodua Frimpong did not hold back when he was commending the head of the GFA.
''It was very refreshing and welcoming when the GFA President Kurt Okraku came to see the Agency that he needed support for the various football activities in the country. In fact, I must commend him and the GFA for bringing such a worthy proposal to the Agency for consideration." Kodua Frimpong told the Ghanaian media.
''Upon meeting with him together with the Board Chairman of the agency, we deliberated on it and made further consultation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports whereby we decided to expand the proposal from the Ghana Football Association to include other disciples because we didn’t want to restrict ourselves to only football.
''We thought about it that the moment we attend to the GFA, Ghana Olympic Committee and others will come and demand that it must also apply to them. In the nutshell, we decided to meet the mother body, the National Sports Authority to have discussions and deliberations on how best the Agency can support our young men and women who have taken sports as their profession, lawyer Kodua stated.
The government is expected to fork out $288,000 in payment to women footballers to help them survive during the coronavirus pandemic.
In July, 480 players in the Women's Premier League will receive GHS 500 each. The payment will be in effect for six months.