HOMOWO REGIONAL AMPE CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT THE HATHIRAMANI HALL, ACCRA SPORTS STADIUM

Under the auspices of the Women Sports Association of Ghana WOSPAG, this year’s Homowo Regional Ampe championship was held at the Hathiramani Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium over the weekend.

The event, which was sponsored by Riyahd construction Ltd, dealers in Estate development, saw seven clubs in action.

The clubs includes; Complex Girls from Accra New Town, Hostac Ladies from North Kaneshie, CASA from Teshie Tsuibleo, TSTM from Teshie, SWAG ladies from Nima, Shuddle girls from Teshie and Star Girls from Nima.

Hostac Ladies from North Kaneshie were a delight to watch with some dexterity in footworks placing first in the round robin contest. The likes of Dolphins Banini, Joy Oriaku and Rebecca Ansah were superb on the day with some excellent leaps, outwitting their opponents with ease.

Complex Girls came through the second position under the leaping attacking trio of Beatrice Addy, Christabel Kwashie and Erica Elorm. Teshie Tsuibleo based CASA finished third.

President of the women sports Association of Ghana WOSPAG was very elated at the event.
” This is the Sport for girls and this offers a platform for them to be fully engaged and to remain committed to their own environment”- she said.

Madam Joyce Mahama was of the view that ” the Ampe sport has come to stay and we shall use this to empower our girls in their future endeavours”- she further stated.

Present at the event was the Operations Officer of the Ghana Olympic committee Mr Shaaban Mohammed. He lauded the hierarchy of the event and pledged support to grow the Sport to appreciable heights.

“Ampe” is a traditional sport for females and has been in existence since time immemorial. It is again played in countries like DR Congo, Benin and Togo. It was first tested at the Congo African Games with tremendous success.

Ampe has the backing of the International Olympic Committee -IOC, and expected to be embraced into the Olympic family. It narrowly lost its inclusion into the last Olympics.

Dennis Kweku Moore
Ampe correspondent