Rejoinder – Asamoah Gyan Foundation, A Hoax

Our attention has been drawn to a publication on your media platform dated Tuesday October 2, 2012 with the headline: “Asamoah Gyan Foundation a hoax: Beneficiary Students Angry”
This publication was said to have originated from ‘THE SPY NEWSPAPER’ which was reproduced on Ghanaweb.com.

We wish to state clearly that the content of this publication is palpably false. The story has no factual grounding whatsoever.

The publication alleges that the Asamoah Gyan Foundation failed to honour its pledge to sponsor winners of the maiden Sports and Music Festival organized in February, 2012.

Again the publication claims the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Samuel Anim-Addo, was contacted to shed more lights on the issue. It never happened.

We wish to place on record that this publication on the whole seeks to tarnish the image of the Foundation and smear us with all kinds of falsehood without provocation.

The Asamoah Gyan Foundation, however, wants to clear the allegations made against the Foundation that:

1. Winners of the maiden” Sports and Music Festival” in February are indeed being sponsored academically by the Foundation. A letter dated on the 18th of July to the Chief Sports Director, Ghana Education Services communicated the modules of Sponsorship. An amount of GHc 1,706.00 by cheque covering the first term expenses was issued by the Foundation to the Greater Accra Regional PE Coordinator, Mr. S.B. Macauley, for disbursement to the said winner-students. We have since footed major educational expenses of those winner-students; and in some instances medical bills.

2. The ultimate winners of the Sports and Music Festival were unable to travel to witness the 2012 Olympic Games because the British High Commission denied them visas.

It is quite clear the publication on Ghanaweb.com which was said to have originated from ‘THE SPY NEWSPAPER’ is very false and with malicious intent.
As part of our Community Social Responsibility, the Foundation has carried out many projects which include,

• Hospital equipment worth USD20, 000.00 has been donated to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ridge Hospital, and Mamprobi Hospital. Again, NHIS registration has been provided to 100 pregnant and needy women.

• Construction of two (2) water bore holes in the Wenchi District, Brong Ahafo Region.

• Partnership with “Wash United” to build Sanitary blocks in Schools in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions.

We urge your media house, The Spy Newspaper, to retract the story and offer a groveling apology to the Asamoah Gyan Foundation in the absence of any viable counter evidence. Thank you.

Samuel Anim-Addo,
Chief Executive,
Asamoah Gyan Foundation.