Questions have emerged over the ownership and possible sale of portions of the Ghana Football Association's (GFA) 100-acre property at Prampram, which houses the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence.
 
The concerns surround claims that parts of the land were sold, with former GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi dismissing suggestions that any portion was sold to members of his administration.
 
His response follows questions surrounding the validity of the lease covering the property and reported assertions by GFA Communications Director Henry Asante Twum that portions of the land had been sold.
 
In a statement detailing the history of the land, Nyantakyi challenged those alleging that portions had been sold to provide evidence and clarify the circumstances surrounding any such transactions.
 
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“If that assertion was made, the public deserves clarification: which portions were sold, by whom, to whom, under what authority, and with what supporting documentation?” he stated.
 
He was particularly emphatic about allegations that members of the former GFA Executive Committee had acquired portions of the property.
 
“I wish to state unequivocally that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, no portion of the land was sold to any member of that Executive Committee,” Nyantakyi added.
 
History of the Prampram land
 
According to Nyantakyi, the 100-acre property was acquired for the GFA in 2001, with a lease executed by the chiefs and elders of Prampram in 2002.
 
The lease was subsequently presented to FIFA in connection with the association's application for funding under the first FIFA GOAL Project.
However, the property became the subject of a legal dispute after a succeeding traditional authority requested the return of the lease for cancellation and re-issuance. The matter eventually went before the High Court in Tema.
 
Over the years, the facility has benefited from several development projects, including a residential complex, a multipurpose hall, a classroom block, an artificial turf pitch with floodlights and a natural-grass football pitch.
 
Nyantakyi maintained that allegations concerning the sale of portions of the land must be established through verifiable evidence, rather than speculation.
 
He also stressed that the decision by a subsequent GFA administration to pursue a new lease in 2019 did not, by itself, prove that the previous lease was invalid.
 


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