Otumfuo to finance Kotoko stadium project
Manhyia Palace has secured a US$ 30 million fund to build a stadium and other infrastructure for Kumasi Asante Kotoko according to a new report circulating in the Kumasi media.
Kwame Aboagye Mensah, Personal Assistant to the Chief of Staff, in a recent interview with Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM disclosed Manhyia’s preparedness to increase the current infrastructural base of the multiple Ghanaian Premier League winners.
”Manhyia has plans to see infrastructural development at Asante Kotoko not only stadium but all-round facelift infrastructure wise,” Mensah said.
According to Aboagye Mensah, one of the top priorities of the Club owner and Life Patron Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is to complement the current infrastructure of the club.
He believes in doing that, it will give the former African club winners an opportunity to rub shoulders with the very best on the continent.
As well as, reduce the heavy financial drain in renting other infrastructure that the club uses in quest to properly challenge for competitions that they engage in on a regular occasion.
According to the plan, the club’s Adako Jachie training complex will be upgraded into an ultra-modern stadium with redesigned pitches.
The facility will include a VIP stand, media stand, electronic scoreboard, and gym Center.
If the project is completed, Kotoko will move from the Baba Yara Stadium which has been its fortress for over so many decades.
Hopefully, this plan will be fruitful as its been long overdue for the club to boast of their own stadium together with other infrastructure in recent times.
