After 45 years, boxer David Kotey, popularly known as D.K Poison will receive the money owed him by Ghana government.
President Akufo-Addo has directed the Youth and Sports Ministry to pay the $45,000 to Ghana’s first world boxing champion.
D.K Poison willingly loaned the money to the state from his second fight purse. The money was intended for the purchase of canned mackerel to mitigate the harsh economic and food conditions the country at the time.
The loan was advanced purely on a gentleman’s agreement with officials of the then Military Government of Ghana, back in Tokyo Japan.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
