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GFA issues strong response to British High Commissioner

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  • Marcus 8 years ago

    The Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence at Prampram has been handled poorly. It's less that excellent. The facilities are nothing to write home about. I am shocked to know that funding was given to GFA. Go and have a look.I ...
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  • POZO 8 years ago

    Anytime someone points out the corrupt practices which is awash in Ghana, the culprits come out with frivolous excuses. Yes Mr. Nyantakyi and his henchmen are corrupt to the core. An independent body is needed to audit these ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: CHALLENGE YOURSELF!!! 8 years ago

    Nyantakyi and his thieving cronies must be jailed for cusingfinancialloss. Fifa should come and audit gfa. Where has the money gone?we didn't give u monies to.chop but.to investment in the game. Where is the proof ? Do these ...
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  • Ayaare namsonga 8 years ago

    Anytime corruption in soccer is mentioned GFA is uneasy just like old ladies when old bones are mentioned in a conversation. GFA should point out one project of theirs in the regions. His excellency Jon is one hundred and qua ...
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  • AONTOIN 8 years ago

    NAME "THE MANY PROJECTS" AND THEIR LOCATIONS AND HOW MUCH GFA SPENT ON EACH, APART FROM THE ONE NEAR THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION.

    CRIMINALS IN POWER!

  • Ahenkura 8 years ago

    Some of the luxuries Benjamin talks about is flying in 1st class with ur families,carrying alot of people who really did not have any role to play in brazil,expensive hotels ext.are examples.Nyantakyi ur have lost respect wit ...
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  • Ama 8 years ago

    Kwesi Nytantakyi is an arrogant bastard, he has the Sepp Blatter mentality, where he thinks he is an untouchable.

  • Dessie 8 years ago

    one day His time will be up like SEPP BLATTER

  • Osei Kofi 8 years ago

    This is undue interference from the British establishment through their HC because they failed to win the world cup bid for London.

    They are using the tag of corruption like they did using the democracy argument to subdue ...
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  • TARANTULA 8 years ago

    Nice analysis Osei Kofi. I am consoled by such comments to think that all is not lost for our much-abused country.

  • Saint Ghfuo: CHALLENGE YOURSELF!!! 8 years ago

    Is benjamin lying? No,.so why are ppl angry? U know who u are. Fifa must audit gfa

  • Joe At3bone 8 years ago

    If Fifa and the crooks up there are all corrupt,why,how and who is going to audit Nyantakyi and his GFA? It`s corruption all the way!!!

  • Saint Ghfuo: CHALLENGE YOURSELF!!! 8 years ago

    Is blatter not resigning amid all the scandal?

  • Son of Man 8 years ago

    The West wants to take over FIFA? FIFA is run by the West. Who is alleged to be the most corrupt FIFA official, a black man called Jack Warner. Is that a figmentation of the West? Africa gets peanuts from FIFA and you are ...
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  • TARANTULA 8 years ago

    Sometimes I wonder what British 'expats' in this country think of their highly iconoclastic - and to put it succinctly, loose-canon of a High Commissioner. Simply put, the man is an embarrassment.

    Sometimes I wonder if the ...
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  • TEDDY 8 years ago

    The British High Commissioner and all others know very well that funds regardless of where they come from and what they're earmarked for,are always misappropriated.He is the only person who has really taken it upon himself to ...
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  • TARANTULA 8 years ago

    Mr Teddy. It is people like you who engineer the arrogance of imperialists to think that they can suppress us with their wicked lies such as that Africans cannot think for themselves and that we are good for nothing. People l ...
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  • Babalawo 8 years ago

    Boss, I've heard this canard all my life. Your head is stuck so deep in your assistance that you don't make one bit of sense. If you think others suffer from slave mentality, you are no better. You suffer from extreme delusio ...
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  • kofi 8 years ago

    Nyantakyi are you not ashamed of urself,British govt built pitches coz they ve money to do so,use fifa's money to build pitches

  • kojo 8 years ago

    Is that all you can do? Insult any person who makes a good observation with big words you looked up in the dictionary? Again where is the money GFA?

  • Kojo Belgium 8 years ago

    Ghanaweb next time don't show this monkey face of 419 nyantakyi the coefficient professor

  • TEDDY 8 years ago

    Mr.Taranula,this is a democratic forum,but all I can say is the truth hurts.This is not about imperialism,its not about ideologies,its tough talk.If every money that belongs to Ghanaians(revenue from oil,agro exports and taxe ...
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  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Teddy, although Taren... Could have replied to your comments without silently reining insults, I think he has a point. I refer you to OSEI Lofis comments. The Brits are after Nyantekyi and change the operational rules of FIF ...
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  • Gordon Yeboah, USA 8 years ago

    We blacks have a similar disease which is always denying facts and instead use big grammars or vocabularies to cover up over evil doings.Whites,excuse me to say are not like that.They see red and call it red no matter what ma ...
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  • Bishop Isaiah Ibn Yusif 8 years ago

    Everbody knows that corruption is wide spread in every facet of our economy and it is a disease which needs to be cured even among we the clegy in the ministry . I would urge G.F.A members not to pretend as if they are clean ...
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  • Kow 8 years ago

    Are all the allegations leveled against you not true? Corrupt nation wreckers. Tarantula,you are an agent of GFA and am least surprised about ur comments

  • Riddick of Denver 8 years ago

    Corruption corruption everywhere in Ghana. Please GFA shut the front door. And listen to the High Commissioner.

  • kdk 8 years ago

    Kwasi please take advise from human being and stop your nonses talk thanks

  • Rogue Lawyer 8 years ago

    BLAME THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF Ghana
    why could someone like Kwasi usmani nyantakyi co-efficient the taxpayers money to disgrace the whole country and still a freeman walking around with arroagnce and impunity?

  • Chuks, Tudu 8 years ago

    Ghanaians can be so stupid sometimes. A Whiteman without evidence has spoken and so God had spoken. See how we crucify our own without reasoning and without any one trying to verify the stupidity of this whiteman? He is whit ...
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  • Son of Man 8 years ago

    What evidence do you need to know GFA has done nothing with FIFA money. Which country will airplane money to male football players and not even deduct tax, yet the female stars have to beg for what has been promised them. A ...
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  • ISLAM FOR JESUS CHRIST 8 years ago

    Nyantakyi! Nyantakyi!! Nyantakyi!!! How many times have i called you? Be veeeeery careful ooo. There is time for everything under this sun ooo. Finito!

  • eben 8 years ago

    What at all do "journalists" in Ghana think they are doing?

    You take money and publish a long statement from someone replying to someone else, when you show no sign that you ever published anything about the subject matte ...
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  • Adam 8 years ago

    The GFA is too charitable to this Jon Benjamin guy, first he puts his nose into our politics and now our sports? He should be warned, i don't think our high commissioner in his country can do same over there. He should leave ...
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  • Son of Man 8 years ago

    " i have been to the Indian embassy in Ghana, they only made me to pay for the visa fee after i have passed the interview and not the other way round"
    So what? That's how they do their business During the days of Ghana Air ...
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  • Amedeka 8 years ago

    There is nothing whiteman or blackman here. Have you seen the Prampram centre of excellence? Nothing to write home about, especially noting that this is money from FIFA for the project. Who and who in Ghana does not know that ...
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  • GFA should publish KPMG audit 8 years ago

    We hear from some of the GFA officials that the national coach is not in the country a lot of times including leave outside Ghana without permission. Also hasn't it been said that the national coach has failed to go out and w ...
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  • Sam Walker 8 years ago

    Stop fooling the people GFA not even a single good pitch in Gh tht why u can host any international friend in tht country show me good pitch in tht country the man is right crocks n thieves God will push u all

  • Sir Zico 8 years ago

    Internally generated funds paaa?does it include undisclosed friendly matches?Nyantakyi,HMMMM

  • Mama Tula 8 years ago

    It is tiome this man, the so called British High Commissioner stop poking his nose into our domestic matters. Do any foreign Ambassador in Britain has the balls to do that in Britain. He should get lost.

  • frank 8 years ago

    l think a wise man listen when he's corrected.What future re we building for generations after us? We d waste little resources to buy expensive cars,rent expensive Hotels for conferences meanwhiles a child born today knows ...
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  • Titus 8 years ago

    Kwesi Nyantekyi should always know that, using funds from Fifa for office building and so - called centre of excellence doesn't help the grassroots in football development at all.

    After all, all we require as a country lik ...
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  • G. K. Berko 8 years ago

    Could we do better to provide proofs for such misconduct as the British High Commissioner charged against the GFA, and many in the Forum spontaneously supported?

    Without plausible proofs of corruption, or specific identif ...
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  • Ebibiman 8 years ago

    Nyantakyi cool down. The high commission have a very good evidence that may shock u .
    Just keep ur mouth close.

  • G-String 8 years ago

    The man is caught and he his defending his dubious act.

  • Gabby 8 years ago

    I find it rather intriguing, how quick we Are to pass judgments without proven evidence.if the gfa boss is that corrupt as we claim, what is precluding us to come forth with any evidence?

  • Moshean 8 years ago

    The High Commissioner just said what is true!!!! Corrupt officials!!

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    what a fool. the man has said something that has triggered you to rant and commit yourself. he said the money has not been used to develop grassroot football. if you don't understand grassroot football he means gutter, gutter ...
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  • SAYASTIS 8 years ago

    The High commissioner was just testing the waters so as to launch into areas of the Ghanaian politics.