{"id":173169,"date":"2025-09-27T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173169\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:23:08","slug":"minister-of-sports-and-recreation-engages-boxing-normalisation-committee-ahead-of-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173169\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Sports and Recreation engages Boxing Normalisation Committee ahead of inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Minister-of-Sports-and-Recreation-engages-Boxing-Normalisation-Committee-ahead-of-inauguration-2002581?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/45407656.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi Adams (L) has instituted a new committee\" title=\"Kofi Adams (L) has instituted a new committee\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>Kofi Adams (L) has instituted a new committee<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Iddie Adams, on Friday, September 26, 2025, met with some members of the newly constituted Boxing Normalisation Committee at the ministry&#8217;s conference room. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which was led by the Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, served as a precursor to the formal inauguration of the committee scheduled for Monday, September 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The formation of the Boxing Normalisation Committee follows the tragic passing of Nigerian boxer, Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju, during a bout held on March 29, 2025, at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the minister commissioned an independent investigative committee, chaired by Rtd Amarkai Amarteifio, to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the death and broader issues affecting professional boxing in Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>The committee submitted a 100-page report with key findings and wide-ranging recommendations to restore safety, discipline, and integrity to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing members of the new committee, the minister commended them for accepting the task, acknowledging the urgency of reforms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis normalisation process is not about personalities; it is about the future of our sport. We are determined to restore boxing to a state of professionalism, safety, and international respect,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised the need to institute immediate medical protocols, update health records of boxers, establish the Medical Commission, and reinforce doping control systems in collaboration with the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/We-can-t-conclude-that-Bahubali-s-death-was-caused-by-boxing-Mohammed-Amin-Lamptey-2002414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We can\u2019t conclude that Bahubali\u2019s death was caused by boxing \u2013 Mohammed Amin Lamptey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He further charged the committee to work quickly, transparently and without bias to stabilise the sport, expressing hope that structured boxing activity can resume by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Sports and Recreation has prepared a formal government white paper outlining its official position on the investigative report, which the committee is expected to implement under ministerial supervision.<\/p>\n<p>The Boxing Normalisation Committee will be officially inaugurated at 1:00 PM on Monday, September 29, 2025, at the Ministry\u2019s Conference Room.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, watch interviews with Bahubali\u2019s twin sister and promoter below<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kofi Adams (L) has instituted a new committee The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Iddie Adams, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-173169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}