Mahama's committee to probe World Cup fiasco illegal - Minority

The Minority in Parliament says President John Dramani Mahama has no locus as per the statutes of the world governing body of football, FIFA, to order the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to set up a committee of inquiry into the Black Stars campaign at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

At a meeting with journalists on Wednesday, July 2 in Accra, the Minority said what President Mahama needed to set up is a Ministerial Committee of Enquiry.

“The President should come clean with what kind of inquiry,” Isaac Kwame Asiamah, a ranking member of the Youth and Sports Committee in Parliament said.

Mr. Asiamah accused the president of insulating Elvis Afriyie Ankrah and Joseph Yammin given their reassignments over the weekend.

Ghana’s 2014 World Cup campaign, the country’s third in succession, was rocked with internal wrangling and player revolts resulting in the team’s exit at the group stage.

“Ghana’s shameful World Cup exit in Brazil 2014 has once again exposed President John Dramani Mahama’s incompetence, mediocrity and lack of prudence in the management of the affairs of this country.

“As a country, we have been to the world cup on two earlier occasions and have many times successfully hosted the whole of Africa, the latest being CAN 2008, and so have the experience, the exposure and the quality human resource.”