Mid Sea denies knowledge of Glo/GFA deal

Mid Sea Company Limited, the company believed to have brokered the Glo sponsorship deal for the Ghana Football Association has denied knowledge of the deal.

The Director of the Estates Construction Company, Professor Marian Ewurama Addy says her outfit has never received money from the Ghana Football Association for any service.

Professor Addy explained that none of the Directors of the Company knows nor has dealt with Renee Williams, the supposed agent who represented the FA and Mid Sea on one hand and the Globacom Ghana on the other.

This latest revelation come after the GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi insisted at a press conference on Friday, 3rd September that Directors of Mid Sea Company Limited negotiated the deal on behalf of Gertrude Twum, Marian Addy and Jane Cole and secured the Glo sponsorship deal for Ghana’s professional league.

“Following the difficulties we had with the then One Touch (Vodafone Ghana) that was when Mid Sea came in. Mid Sea came in through Afrisat (the TV Production company which was responsible for packaging the local league matches for satellite station GBS)”. Renee Williams was the one who got the deal after we had had discussions with him and there were some difficulties with continuing the relationship with Afrisat when GBS had gone under liquidation; and so Mid Sea was brought in as a substitution or replacement company for it".

“But all the negotiations and all the deals including meetings and everything were done between Glo represented by ‘Abi Sheik’ (the marketing manager of Glo) and the agency represented by Renee Williams. Everything was done above board”. Kwesi Nyantakyi told the press.

However in a sharp rebuttal, Professor Marian Ewurama Addy told Citi FM in an exclusive interview that none of the Directors of the company have dealt with Renee Williams nor have they received money from the GFA for any service.

She added that the Management of the company will release a statement in due time.

The Ghana Football Association announced a five-year sponsorship deal worth $15 million with the new telecommunication company as title sponsor for the premier league in December 2008.

Glo Mobile Ghana, operators of Glo signed a deal with the FA as Official Telecommunications sponsor of the senior national team, the Black Stars. The 5 year deal is worth $9 million deal.