The Ghana Premier League Board (PLB) has guided all top level clubs to watch a moment hush in remembrance of the fifteenth commemoration of the May 9, 2001 Accra Sports Stadium fiasco.
The one-minute silence will be seen before commencement at all association habitats for week 11 of the premier board. The fifteenth commemoration of May 9 falls on Monday, a day after week 11 matches of the Ghana Head Board.
The PLB wishes to take this chance to help all partners to remember the need to keep on upholding fundamentals of the amusement to hinder the repeat of occasions which prompted the sad occasion 15 years prior. That day, Ghanaians encountered the best football catastrophe in the historical backdrop of the amusement when the two adversary groups met in Accra for a class match.
History was made, yet for wrong reasons. It completed in a 2–1 win for Hearts, yet police let go poisonous gas into the stand where Kotoko supporters revolted as a result of saw one-sided directing.
Deplorably, the way out entryways were bolted and unmanned. This cleared out scores of supporters who attempted to get away from the singing agony of the poisonous gas to battle and, inevitably, rush. Numerous were pulverized to death.
The aggregate toll was 126 lives.
A Commission of Investigation into the disaster prescribed that four policemen be striven for homicide. Each of the four were observed to be not liable of homicide, as the passings were not brought about by the nerve gas, but rather by suffocation.
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