Chopping” Ghana’s money in the name of football

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mugu yaro 9 years ago

with these type of skeptics surrounding Brazil fiasco my best suggestion to the inquiry commission is to (chin chin chin) sentence all the victims to jail at least one thousand years for those individuals to learn a great les ...
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with these type of skeptics surrounding Brazil fiasco my best suggestion to the inquiry commission is to (chin chin chin) sentence all the victims to jail at least one thousand years for those individuals to learn a great lesson and to know better and to place their country first before any other thing else. AND THEY CALL THEIR SELVES CHRISTIANS, MICKY MOUSES OPIOLOGO LARYEA SUORN, MATA BABA NA.
mugu yaro 9 years ago

skepticism.

skepticism.
PROF 9 years ago

GOD BLESS SULLEY MUNTARI.

GOD BLESS SULLEY MUNTARI.
moyo 9 years ago

Seeaam!!!!!. The face of a criminal GFA President. We are waiting for you to take Telegrapgh to court as promised

Seeaam!!!!!. The face of a criminal GFA President. We are waiting for you to take Telegrapgh to court as promised
Kpengson Ray 9 years ago

Thanks for the revelations. But I do not yet want to make any comments based on what you have revealed. Let us see if this comes up at the Commission's sitting.Why not take your revelations/observations to the Commission?
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Thanks for the revelations. But I do not yet want to make any comments based on what you have revealed. Let us see if this comes up at the Commission's sitting.Why not take your revelations/observations to the Commission?
By the way I wish you had taken your time to write a more coherent article. Too many errors!
IB 9 years ago

Please note, Afrifa never built sports stadiums it was rather General Acheampong.

Please note, Afrifa never built sports stadiums it was rather General Acheampong.
NN 9 years ago

Instead Ghanaweb should have had the picture of the Kaladan Stadium. It was one place all teams dreaded. After many years I saw it last year and wept.
It was not just for soccer but served other disciplines.
Yes you could h ...
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Instead Ghanaweb should have had the picture of the Kaladan Stadium. It was one place all teams dreaded. After many years I saw it last year and wept.
It was not just for soccer but served other disciplines.
Yes you could have avoided mentioning any names and your facts would have been OK. Afrifa is noted to have built only his village. But does not take away the case you have built. Congrats.
Paa Kofi 9 years ago

My kudos to the work you are doing of keeping us informed of the Commission's sitting. I have no doubt that they will do a very good job.
Thank you Mr President.

My kudos to the work you are doing of keeping us informed of the Commission's sitting. I have no doubt that they will do a very good job.
Thank you Mr President.
@Paa Kofi 9 years ago

How many "good jobs" have our commissions done in the face of the myriads of scandals spanning several years now involving millions of dollars lost to the state?

The truth will be found but no one will be held responsible ...
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How many "good jobs" have our commissions done in the face of the myriads of scandals spanning several years now involving millions of dollars lost to the state?

The truth will be found but no one will be held responsible and the public will be left out guessing what happened next.

This is Ghana.
Eugene Ashrifie 9 years ago

When is this cleptocracy going to disappear in Ghana?When the findings are clear with the thieves, first-they must give the money back and then go to jail for about 10-15 years for all the malpractises they display.The law sh ...
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When is this cleptocracy going to disappear in Ghana?When the findings are clear with the thieves, first-they must give the money back and then go to jail for about 10-15 years for all the malpractises they display.The law should not spare anybody.
James 9 years ago

When the head is rotten don't expect the rest of the body to remain fresh. Who approved the budget for the WC in Brazil? Are some true patriots among the managers of this country? Like other past commissions reports, my fear ...
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When the head is rotten don't expect the rest of the body to remain fresh. Who approved the budget for the WC in Brazil? Are some true patriots among the managers of this country? Like other past commissions reports, my fear is that this one may just come and die off.
This happen in this country as in a leaderless state. Our leaders sleep until the worst happens and they set up commissions of enquiry. I pray for our country. God help Ghana
Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

I know Sandema,I used to spend my holidays in late seventies and early eighties at Bawku. You are lucky to have at least some sporting facilities, I am from the Eastern Region and apart from the Mini Stadium at Koforidua,whi ...
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I know Sandema,I used to spend my holidays in late seventies and early eighties at Bawku. You are lucky to have at least some sporting facilities, I am from the Eastern Region and apart from the Mini Stadium at Koforidua,which is used by the regional inter sports (Secondary Schools now SHS and Training colleges there is no sports facilities in the region. Sports talented children from the region who either for financial reasons or academic reasons could not make it to the secondary school now SHS has no chance to develop their talents, talk-less of showing their talents. This is why we cannot stomach any longer to allow the President and his Government to continue robbing their hard earning Cocoa money to pay the educated few whose education were financed by the unlucky hard working cocoa farmers. Enough is really Enough and every money from the state must be accounted for to the penny including that to the GFA with or without the blessing of FIFA. Development Projects and opportunities must be equally among all Ghanaians without respect to ethnicity, tribe or location.
NN 9 years ago

Boamah,
You have misfiring with your anlysis of the article.
You said you know Sandema but I doubt whether you actually entered the said stadium. If you did, what was inside it?
Look here , the history of the stadia was th ...
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Boamah,
You have misfiring with your anlysis of the article.
You said you know Sandema but I doubt whether you actually entered the said stadium. If you did, what was inside it?
Look here , the history of the stadia was that the Regional Commissioner in the Upper Region decided that each district capitals in the region should have sports stadiums, so they were built but really never completed. I can assure you that only the Bolga one was half finished and looked like a stadium. So if the Eastern Regional Administration preferred other projects to stadium that was its priority. It was not a national decision.
However if you are not old enough ask your elders and they will tell you that when Colonel George Minyila (from Navrongo) was appointed the Regional Commissioner for the Eastern Region, he did marvelous things there. He directed that NO new should be built in Koforidua if there was no provision for water closets and flush tiolets. Today’s Koforidua is definitely NOT what Col. George Minyila dreamt of.
Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

NN or who ever you identity is please stop this cheap politics and justification. You have shot yourself at the foot. According to the stadiums mentioned by Listowell Yesu Bukarson were built by Acheampong`s NRC Government? ...
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NN or who ever you identity is please stop this cheap politics and justification. You have shot yourself at the foot. According to the stadiums mentioned by Listowell Yesu Bukarson were built by Acheampong`s NRC Government? Was Col Minyila from the North not the Eastern Regional Commissioner for the Eastern Region in Acheampong`s NRC Government? Why did the Minyila`s Administration unlike his two colleagues from the North and Upper Regions build Stadiums for the Eastern Region despite the fact that there were three first division teams ( Koforidua Obourtabiri, Abuakwa Susubiribi and Okwahu United with Real Tamale United (RTU)? I hope you are not going to tell me because he was not the native of the Eastern Region because the Region has been marginalized in terms of Ministerial and other Government appointments in both Mills and Mahamah`s NDC Government. By the way the was only one Commissioner for both Upper East and Upper West the then Upper Regional Commissioner. Why did that Commissioner build three Stadiums in Upper East namely Sandema, Novorongo and Bolga or he built but the writer refused to mention them because he is from the Upper East and the President is from the North. To be sincere with you I dislike people who write or use politics for ethnic and tribal purposes. I was in Bawku when Mamprusi- Kusase war started due to Akata Poree`s position in the PNDC. I was very young at Minyila`s time but was at the Secondary school. The writer wrote a nice article but with ethnic and tribal undertone and agenda and should not be tolerated.
,, 9 years ago

Boamah,
I see you that a young man who loves knowledge.
Let me paraphrase some points for you.
Did Minyila anything good for the eastern Region?
Did I say the building of the districts stadiums was a policy? Yes.
Did you ...
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Boamah,
I see you that a young man who loves knowledge.
Let me paraphrase some points for you.
Did Minyila anything good for the eastern Region?
Did I say the building of the districts stadiums was a policy? Yes.
Did you know that at that time there was only ONE Upper Region?
Do you know that RTU is a merger of more than one team? Did you know that this policy of stadium building did not include Northern Region?
You appreciate that the writer only gave examples but even that was mistaken about who built them and that brought you in.
I see no reason to introduce the ethnic card in this discourse.
Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

Did you not blame the people of the Eastern Region or at least me for Minyila`s failure to build District Stadiums in the Eastern Region? Please do mention the project that Minyila initiated in the Eastern Region? What Minyil ...
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Did you not blame the people of the Eastern Region or at least me for Minyila`s failure to build District Stadiums in the Eastern Region? Please do mention the project that Minyila initiated in the Eastern Region? What Minyila did was using soldiers to clear the area around Koforidua Lorry park making the piece of land available to be developed by natives of the region namely Gaabs, Oteng and Adofo. Is it not mind boggling to you that though the building of the districts stadiums was a policy of the then Upper Regional Commissioner responsible for today Upper East and Upper West yet both you and the writer could not include a single one from Upper West in your examples. The writer, an international Journalist was writing on an issue affecting the whole country but decided to limit his examples to his Region of origin. Do you know the financial cost alone excluding the human cost of the numerous ethnic wars in the Northern part of the country and Bawku
,, 9 years ago

Talking about policy is not blaming for failure but about priorities.
I thought you wanted to learn but i see you are not. Good bye and thanks for the debate.

Talking about policy is not blaming for failure but about priorities.
I thought you wanted to learn but i see you are not. Good bye and thanks for the debate.
Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

You should better answer the questions put to you. Were you not implying directly that the lack of sports facilities in the Eastern is due the fact that the Eastern Regional Administration (Minyila) did not have the building ...
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You should better answer the questions put to you. Were you not implying directly that the lack of sports facilities in the Eastern is due the fact that the Eastern Regional Administration (Minyila) did not have the building of Stadium as his priorities. Was the money for the Stadium not from the Central Government? If we were to use your mas stab wouldn`t we have been against SADA and other projects specifically for the north. People must not be allowed to use ethnocentrism and tribalism to destroy themselves the North and eventually Ghana. Good bye and Good night.
Achumboro Ayoung 9 years ago

This article was a good piece, it demonstrated how our managers can chop our money in the name of Soccer.
But I think the writer should be informing us with accurate facts. Bolga, Navrongo and Sandema stadia were not put up ...
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This article was a good piece, it demonstrated how our managers can chop our money in the name of Soccer.
But I think the writer should be informing us with accurate facts. Bolga, Navrongo and Sandema stadia were not put up by Gen. Afrifa. They were put up by Gen. Acheampong. Next time avoid such misinformation.
Harrison 9 years ago

Get fresh men at GFA, and replace the coach.

Get fresh men at GFA, and replace the coach.
Mama G 9 years ago

Good job Mr Yesu but Ghanaians needs to send all these criminals to firing squad in the name of football

Good job Mr Yesu but Ghanaians needs to send all these criminals to firing squad in the name of football
Kojo 9 years ago

Mahama needs to forget about IMF to re-build the economy. Because the No 1 IMF is in the people, Get all crooks,corrupt one ,greedy citizen out and let them go hustle. Mr President if to be seen.

Mahama needs to forget about IMF to re-build the economy. Because the No 1 IMF is in the people, Get all crooks,corrupt one ,greedy citizen out and let them go hustle. Mr President if to be seen.
DAVID V.K. ARKORFUL 9 years ago

People like Listowell and all well meaning Ghanaians should be congratulated for revealing vital information to the Commission.Welldone Listowell.

People like Listowell and all well meaning Ghanaians should be congratulated for revealing vital information to the Commission.Welldone Listowell.
seth 9 years ago

It is good to have an enquiry but i wouldn,t go for a Presidential Enquiry. The findings may be subect to subjectivity intstead of objectivity. We need an independent body for the enquiry.

It is good to have an enquiry but i wouldn,t go for a Presidential Enquiry. The findings may be subect to subjectivity intstead of objectivity. We need an independent body for the enquiry.
kwamena/usa 9 years ago

Good job Bukarson! People, use this forum to put all your questions out asap so the committee will ask or delve into areas the people of Ghana want to know. If I may ask, didn't a sports Ministry person go to prison for some ...
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Good job Bukarson! People, use this forum to put all your questions out asap so the committee will ask or delve into areas the people of Ghana want to know. If I may ask, didn't a sports Ministry person go to prison for some missing cash meant for one of our sports teams, back in the NPP era?
kwamena/usa 9 years ago

Please not only jail them, sell all their properties that the state diem stolen money from state coffers. Do not stop there, go after every area of government, if it means picking auditors from every political party and go af ...
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Please not only jail them, sell all their properties that the state diem stolen money from state coffers. Do not stop there, go after every area of government, if it means picking auditors from every political party and go after the thieves in our govt. Now that will be proper accountability. Save Ghana Mahama, or else Ghana will save you and your family. Our people are tired.
Samuel Asare-Nkansah (USA) 9 years ago

Let them repay every pesewa.The nation of Ghana must render an apology to Muntari and Prince.
Do not just talk about the occurrence of the problem but demand a refund of any payment made out to these crooks.They collected t ...
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Let them repay every pesewa.The nation of Ghana must render an apology to Muntari and Prince.
Do not just talk about the occurrence of the problem but demand a refund of any payment made out to these crooks.They collected their respective salaries,rented expensive suites at the expense of the country and got paid over $80,000 for doing nothing.These sums of money could have gone to pay for the fees of those poor kids who sat for the WAFEC exams and have no money to pay for.That stupid guy with the deep tribal mark just gets on my nerves
KK 9 years ago

With all that Ghana money he has stolen, he could afford plastic surgery to have the 'deep tribal mark' fixed. You see those puffed-up cheeks of his? He needs to slow down on the steroid-rigged Kentucky fried chicken. Just ca ...
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With all that Ghana money he has stolen, he could afford plastic surgery to have the 'deep tribal mark' fixed. You see those puffed-up cheeks of his? He needs to slow down on the steroid-rigged Kentucky fried chicken. Just can't stand those callous, thieves!! Jail them all!!!
Johnny 9 years ago

Where is the lawsuit, Mr Nyantakyi? There was an article posted on this website and elsewhere that Nyantakyi was on a plane bound for London, to file a lawsuit against those accusing him of trying to fix football matches. I g ...
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Where is the lawsuit, Mr Nyantakyi? There was an article posted on this website and elsewhere that Nyantakyi was on a plane bound for London, to file a lawsuit against those accusing him of trying to fix football matches. I guess the plane never landed...
Obournana 9 years ago

That is the order if the dsy. The opposition NPP don't want new faces especially, the upcoming graduates to be higher positions because they are not experience. This is because NPP use their old politicians who know the game ...
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That is the order if the dsy. The opposition NPP don't want new faces especially, the upcoming graduates to be higher positions because they are not experience. This is because NPP use their old politicians who know the game of politics to steal without being caught. Again, these old folks can manipulate the the corrupt judges in the country to protect them in their dubious deals. Let us remove all those folks from the system and bring in new faces who do not know the connections in there. It is enough.

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