Ranking Member on Parliament’s Youth and Sports Committee, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has doubled down on his allegations surrounding Ghana’s 2026 World Cup visa arrangements, daring anyone who believes his claims are false to take him to court.

Speaking on JoyNews, Assafuah maintained that documents in his possession support his claims about the submission of questionable names and portfolios to foreign diplomatic missions in connection with World Cup travel.

He said he was prepared to defend the allegations, insisting that anyone who disagrees with him should pursue legal action rather than simply dismissing his claims.

Assafuah again alleged that the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) submitted 50 names to the US Embassy as media personnel, but only two were identified as genuine media practitioners following verification by the embassy’s Fraud Prevention Unit.

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He named Philip Narh and Andy Dosty of Multimedia as the two people verified as media personnel.

“Out of those 50 names, only two have been verified. Of course, with the support of the Fraud Prevention Unit of the US Embassy, as media persons, only two,” Assafuah said.

He further alleged that some individuals connected to the arrangements paid between US$8,000 and US$9,000, while questioning how people who were allegedly not staff of public institutions came to be presented to foreign embassies under institutional identities.

The MP also repeated his call for the removal and possible prosecution of officials he believes may have been involved in the alleged irregularities.

Assafuah argued that the issue goes beyond administrative misconduct because, in his view, the alleged submission of questionable identities to foreign diplomatic missions could damage Ghana’s reputation.

“If anybody wants to come and sue they should come and sue me because I have the document,” he said, insisting that he was prepared to stand by the evidence he had presented.

The Minority has previously called for investigations into the roles of the National Sports Authority (NSA), GTA, the Sports Ministry and other entities linked to the visa arrangements.

It has also questioned why some people were allegedly assigned positions that did not exist within the NSA’s organisational structure.

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