Kojo Bonsu, Board Chairman of the Ghana Sports Council, has spoken out about how Ghana's participation in the recent World Cup tournament was organized, denying any malfeasance on his part as contained in a story on the subject earlier.

Rejoining the publication, he explained that his 28-year-old son, Michael Owusu Darko, approached Posterity Capital Group (Pty) Ltd to provide Ghanaian food for the Ghanaian supporters in South Africa.

He also sought to provide tourism services for US$30 per person per day and went ahead to draft an MOU to the South African group, E-zee Travel S.A. and African Village South Africa.

He stated that even though his son, Michael Owusu Darko Bonsu, signed the MOU alongside his witnesses, Posterity Capital Group, the principals in the transaction, did not append any signature to the prepared document of agreement. By the non-appending of signature to the MOU by Posterity Capital, he averred the MOU became stillborn, inoperative and unenforceable at law.

He summed up his position, thus "in short, the attempt by Michael Owusu Darko Bonsu to do business under the South Africa World Cup did not materialize."

Turning to the issue of ticket racketeering, as contained in the story, he explained that this could not have been the case because all tickets issued at the World Cup were marked and so had there been any malfeasance, it could have been traced to the Ghana Football Association, Kojo Bonsu said.

Since he did not offer any contract to his son, he said, there could not have been any conflict of interest as being alleged.

He took exception to a Daily Guide columnist, Ebo Quansah, for, as he put it, mischievously quoting from the prepared MOU by Michael Owusu Darko Bonsu with the service providers which was not executed and operated upon anyway.

Based on the foregone therefore, he stated "my son was never paid $30 per supporter for 1100 supporters for fifteen days as reported earlier".

The Ghanaian envoy in South Africa, he said, can be contacted for such verification since it was this mission which made all payments in connection with the South Africa World Cup expenses.

An earlier publication reported malfeasance in the management of the 1100 Ghanaians supporters who were flown to South African, mentioning the son of Kojo Bonsu as being involved, an allegation denied by the Sports Council Board Chairman when he was contacted.