Oliver Baker-Vormawor, a private legal practitioner, has slammed the NDC government’s plan to fund supporters for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
According to Vormawor, he had watched and read with dismay the statements made by the Sports Minister that the government will be funding not more than 800 supporters at a cost of 9,250 dollars per head.
He asserted that if the government allows this to go through, he will lose all trust in the NDC’s wisdom and commitment to improving Ghana.
Oliver Baker-Vormawor detailed that the government’s plan to spend 7.4 million US dollars for people to go and “shee jama” at the World Cup is so unconscionable and incredibly insensitive, and called for the money to be donated to the MahamaCare.
In a Facebook post on April 1, 2026, Oliver Baker-Vormawor wrote, “I watched and read with dismay the statements made by the Sports Minister that the government will be funding not more than 800 supporters at a cost of 9,250 dollars per head to go to America and watch the black stars. That’s just for the group stage.
For the love of God, if the government allows this to go through, I will lose all trust in the NDC’s wisdom and commitment to improving this country.
President John Dramani Mahama established the Ghana Medical Trust – MahamaCare. A laudable initiative. I have seen them going all around sourcing donations to the Trust, so that critical health challenges Ghanaians face will be addressed.
In fact, my law firm was considering making a small donation of 5000 cedis to support the initiative.
To learn that the government plans to spend 7.4 million US dollars for people to go and “shee jama” at the World Cup is so unconscionable and incredibly insensitive that I cannot mince words about it.
This must be stopped! They must donate that money to MahamaCare.
Please for the love of God make this make sense. Have we learnt nothing since Brazil?
And. No, we won’t be donating anything to MahamaCare till this ridiculous idea is dropped. Mtcheew.
Be like we no be serious people like that”.
In related news, President John Dramani Mahama has announced that his government will not fly Ghanaian supporters to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
According to President Mahama, the government’s decision is in line with recommendations in the Dzamefe Report, which warned against the use of public funds for such purposes.
President Mahama highlighted that even supporting a small number of 200 fans would place a significant financial burden on the state.
He detailed that flying and accommodating just 200 supporters could cost close to $2 million.
Speaking at the Ghana World Cup fundraising campaign on Friday, March 20, 2026, Mahama stated, “In consonance with the Dzamefe Report, the government has no plans to allocate public funds to fly supporters to the World Cup”.
“We all want to see our fans in the stands, but we must be responsible in how we use public resources,” he added.
Mahama stressed the need to channel funds into critical areas such as job creation.
Meanwhile, Kofi Adams, the Minister of Sports and Recreation, has revealed plans to sponsor Police Officers and bloggers to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
According to the Sports Minister, they plan to send police officers to the World Cup to have the opportunity to learn large crowd management in the stadium.
The minister also revealed plans to send Emergency units, Creative Artistes and Bloggers to gain learn and gain exposure at the World Cup.
Kofi Adams explained that the idea was inspired by American streamer IShowSpeed’s visit to Africa.
Speaking in an interview with Adom FM, Kofi Adams disclosed, “It is not about chasing the ball for 90 minutes; we see it as an opportunity to learn. We would like to send a few people to study aspects of culture, such as fan mobilisation and support.
I have discussed with the IGP that we need to send personnel because we want to form a police unit for sports. So we want to send some police officers to the World Cup to observe crowd control in action and understand how it is done. We want to strengthen the security of the game, if my fundraising [sports fund] works well,” he said.
Kofi Adams further added, “A number of police officers will go, along with one or two members of the emergency response team. We also have creative artists, including bloggers, because it is an opportunity for them to build a base. We saw how IShowSpeed visited us, so if we send them to embark on a similar initiative, they can gain more followers”.
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