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Ghana dissolves football association over bribe

PML DAILY EDITOR | PML Daily Editorial by PML DAILY EDITOR | PML Daily Editorial
June 8, 2018
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BBC – Ghana has dissolved its national football association after its president was filmed apparently accepting a “cash gift”.

Kwesi Nyantakyi was pictured taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter pretending to be a businessman keen to invest in Ghanaian football.

Kwesi Nyantakyi taking money from an undercover reporter pretending to be a businessman (Agency photos)

He has not commented on the allegations.

Sports Minister Isaac Asiama said the association had been “dissolved with immediate effect”, GhanaWeb reported.

Correspondents say the undercover investigation by controversial journalist Anas Aremayaw Anas has raised questions about the nature of football in Africa.

His documentary, entitled When Greed and Corruption Become the Norm, was handed to authorities last month and publicly screened for the first time on Wednesday.

Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Ghana’s information minister, said the government had “decided to take immediate steps to have the GFA (Ghana Football Association) dissolved”, citing the “widespread nature of the apparent rot”.

He said interim measures to govern Ghanaian football would be announced soon, pending the formation of a new association.

The GFA said in a statement that it would co-operate with any investigation.

The Ghana FA has been in existence since 1957

Mr Nyantakyi is vice president of the Confederation of African Football and also a member of the Fifa Council, effectively the board that runs world football.

Since taking charge of the GFA, he has made anti-corruption a major part of his message.

However, the undercover film shows him apparently placing the $65,000 “shopping money” into a black plastic bag.

BBC Africa’s new investigations unit, Africa Eye, has had exclusive access to the footage.

An undercover reporter was pretending to be a businessman from a Middle Eastern company wanting to invest in Ghanaian football.

The filmmaker’s team had invited Mr Nyantakyi to a luxury hotel in the Middle East with the promise of a meeting with a wealthy businessman interested in a sponsorship deal with the GFA.

Mr Nyantakyi went on to both negotiate and write up the sponsorship deal on behalf of the GFA, which could have allowed a cut to go to a company he owned.

Correspondents say that had the fictitious deal gone ahead, he could potentially have made $4.5m from the diversion of funds.

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