Former board member for Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club, Harry Zakour, has hailed the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt E.S. Okraku, as one of the best ever.
The veteran football administrator was at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday, May 9, for the National Sports Authority’s and the GFA’s collaborative commemoration of the saddest disaster in Ghana’s sports history that occurred on May 9, 2001.
Mr Zakour commended the current Sports and Recreation Minister, Hon. Kofi Adams, and president Okraku, who is now the second vice-president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), describing him as one of the best Ghana has had in 24 years.
“We have a good GFA chairman [Kurt Okraku] and a good minister in position. And I can see today he is one of the best so far in 24 years,” Mr Zakour said in an interview with Max TV’s Josiah Okoe Quaye.
The May 9 disaster at the Ohene Djan Stadium, present-day Accra Sports Stadium, where 126 lives were lost, ranks as the third deadliest disaster in the history of association football, behind Estadio Nacional and the Kanjuhuran Stadium disasters.
