Africa Cup of Nations 2015: Equatorial Guinea and Gabon co-hosting in disguise The Equatorial Guinean authorities refused to take care of the transportation of the fifteen participating countries that will be onits soil from January 17 to February 8, because of the falling price of oil per barrel. Gabon has decided to helpits former co-host neighbour. Consequently, the soccer madPresident Ali Bongoof Gabon will provide twenty buses for the nationalteams to facilitate travel during the three weeks of the competition.Gabonese Sports MinisterBlaise Louembemade the revelation on Monday. Another interesting development from the tournament is that Equatorial GuineaPresident Teodoro Obiang Nguemain a statement on the countrys National Television announced that he will offer free 40,000 tickets throughout the competition to the poorest supporters and called on rich businessmen in his country to follow his example.SaidPresident Obiang Nguema: Wehave to give solemnity to the event! Itis necessary to buy tickets to fill stadiums. Let those who have the means to help the poor do so! Myself, I will buy 40,000 tickets at therate of 10,000 per region. At the cost of 500 Fcfa including a discount fromCAF, the Equatorial Guinea boss is expected to spend only 30, 000 Euros of his ill gotten wealth to acquire the 40,000 tickets. The AfricaCup of Nations 2015 begins this Saturday, January 17 in Bata.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:56:48 +0000
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