The Three Amigos, Essien, Muntari & KPB Destroyed The Team (2) (sports section)
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The Three Amigos, Essien, Muntari & KPB Destroyed The Team (2) (sports section)
My article published on the sports section of Ghanaweb titled "The Three Amigos, Essien, Muntari & KPB Destroyed The Team" of Wednesday, 2 July 2014 received a torrent of insultive comments on my person because of the belief by commentators that I have switched camps and now support the GFA and the Ministry of Sports for what they did and that is far further from the truth. Maybe I should have stated my support for the Players clearly which I failed to do. As I wrote in the article, when the Muntari fracas with Mr Armah came out, I was one of the earliest people to comment on the article and even supported Muntari's action.
At a time when a lot of Ghanaians were calling the Players greedy, I was a lone wolf in the wilderness defending the Players right to what they were demanding because I have done a research and found out the Players appearance fees was mandated and paid by FIFA from $8 million to each of the 32 qualifying teams. How much to be paid though was to be decided by the country's FA. Some of the Players in the last eight teams remaining are going to receive as much as $250,000 each and even Cameroon Players that disgrace themselves in Brazil received $135,000 each so what is $100,000 to Blackstars?
I even wrote an article the same day the story came out which was published the next day titled "Blackstars Mess In Brazil, Blame The Government" on Friday, 27 June 2014. I have supported the players when others were condemning them so I have every right to criticize some of them when they behave badly with no apologies.
This is the problem we have in Ghana. As I said esrlier, I have written more than eight sports articles about four of them before Blackstars even went to camp and warned about the financial malfeasance going on by GFA and Sports Ministry. Some commentators told me to shut up and support the team and that every money being spent is worth it. Now we are coming to our senses and realizing that, what I warned Ghanaians about is what we are talking about now.
The real problem was created by the Sports Ministry. It should have stayed out of gfa affairs and allowed gfa to source its own funds since FIFA pays them enough to take care of their affairs but for the Ministry to perpetrate corruption on Ghanaians, it has to get involved. Why can't we as people prevent problems from happening and always allow problems to happen and then start pointing fingers? I do agree these people should resign but it is not also right to say they should not come and tell us what went on in Brazil. Some newspapers in Ghana today are reporting some of the things I wrote in this article. We need to know what went on so that we can start rebuilding the team not from two years ahead but right from today.The gfa officials, sports ministry and the Blackstars including the technical team are all to blame and we need to listen to both sides and address the problem.
Mr. Armah, Muntari's pugilistic opponent in the boxing match in Brazi came out and told his part of the story which tallies with what I wrote in my article and this is a quote from his statement;
"When it came to my turn to speak I urged the players to be patient while we all waited for the money in Brazil as promised by the President," he recalled.He said he had hardly finished speaking when Muntari rose up and shouted at him to keep quiet, to the surprise of everybody present.He then approached me and slapped me in the face. But because he is a player I hesitated to reply but he returned to give me another slap which infuriated me, and that compelled me to reply him with a heavy blow straight to his face," he added.But while thinking the fight was over, Muntari suddenly rushed into his room, wearing only his shorts and tried to attack him again but for the intervention of some national security officials present who whisked him to the porch while FA officials restrained the player in the room.
He further disclosed that following the incident Muntari's parents called him from Ghana to apologise for their son's behaviour. I was also told that Muntari's wife came looking for me to apologise on her husband's behalf when I left the hotel," he revealed.
Does it mean I support what Mr. Armah did? I wished Muntari has not gone to his Mr. Armah's room to continue the fight but he did.
People think the three Amigos have the right to bring their wives to camp with them because Kwesi Nyantakyi brought his family. Is it right for the three to have brought their wives to the team camp despite the fact that the whole team has decided against it? Don't bring your wives to camp does not mean you should not bring your family to Brazil which I believe all the teams players did. They brought their families to Brazil but not to the team hotels. They put their families in other hotels so that they could concentrate on the task ahead which is to play football. The three Amigos have every right to bring their wives and friends to Brazil but Ghanaian Taxpayers don't have to pay their hotel bills and other expenses.
About the three Amigos bringing their own Doctors to camp and their expenses forced on the GFA, some of you with emotional and mental baggage though I am stupid to speak against that. What about if the other twenty Players say they also want their own Doctors in camp and their bills paid by GFA? Do you know Asamoah Gyan, Dede Ayew, Jordan Ayew and two other Players I am informed were so upset about this preferential treatment to the three Amigos they confronted the GFA members about this? Do you people not want a team with unity? That was the beginning of the team indescipline in camp.Where do you stop? What about if all of the Players have said 'I have a unique hairstyle and only my Braber can do it so I want to bring my barber to camp and GFA should pay for their hotel rooms and other expenses? What about if each Player wanted to bring his own chef to camp and GFA has to pick up the tab?
The problem as I have realized from my time in this forum is that, we support blindly in our political, tribal and soccer matters. In a team sports where many individual beliefs have to be molded into one to achieve a purpose, if other members perceive some others are getting special treatments not available to all other members, that is a formula for disaster and that caused our downfall in Brazil.
Kwesi Nyantakyi flying business class with his wife and two children whilst putting the team in Coach in and of itself calls for him losing his job. These Players should at least fly business class. I live in a country where some of these "Ballers" fly their personal planes to games or at least first class with most teams owning their own planes configurated to accommodate Players comfortability, flying these player millionaires in coach is an insult. I bet these 47 GFA officials all flew business class.
Going forward,the GFA should be dissolved and new members selected. The Ministry of Sports should have limited access to GFA operations and selection of Blackstars Players should not only be based on skills only but the Players behavior. After Dede and Jordan Ayew were accepted back into the team, they have been model citizens and not a peep was heard about them in Brazil, I say Kudos to them and the gentleman of them all, Kwadwo Asamoah, I say continue to be the gentleman that you are. I respect you, KASA.
Justice Sarpong
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Koku Anyidoho was at his usual idiotic self during the NDC's manifesto launch which was held at the Jubilee Pack in Ho. The director of communications at the Presidency bewailed as to whether Nana Akuffo Addo would add freebies such as sanitary pads for ladies to use at schools during their menstrual periods.According to Koku, his niece who is about to enter secondary school came to him and asked him this question;
“In fact two days ago, a niece of mine asked me...“Uncle Koku so this free SHS thing, is Nana Akuffo Addo telling us that, I will walk into a dormitory and go and meet a trunk and a chop box full of provisions, as well as books? So does it mean daddy and mummy will not pay a pesewa? Uncle Koko, so I have just begun to… have my period, will I be provided with free sanitary pads as well?” ...and this is a young niece of mine”, Mr. Anyidoho proudly said."
My guess is that,maybe the niece was asking about IPAD and not sanitry pad but Koku being a fool as he is misunderstood it for sanitry pad.How can the Director of Communications at the Presidency of the Republic of Ghana be this stupid? Decorum and intergrity are two things missing in Koku's arsenal which makes him the worst person to be the Spokesperson or Director of Communication of the Presidency.What answer did Koku give to his Niece? Unfortunately this unintelligent man whose brain is located in his stomach failed to tell us what answer he gave to her niece who might be about thirteen or fourteen, I am just guessing but seems to be unfortunately been afflicted by the stupidity disease that is the bane in his family. I pray to God if this story is true, the family send this little one to a Psychologist to learn what personal responsibility is. There is no free lunch anywhere in the world and whatever is given to somebody without that person paying for it, somebody has to pay for it through the taxes taking from their paycheck or taxes they pay for government services and I wish Koku would have told her niece this basic responsibility expected from any human being to maintain a modicum of decency. Free education does not mean government is going to strip parents of all their parental responsibilities but you cannot trust people like Koku to be witty enough to drum into the head of their family members the basic responsibily expected from parents. Koku has no decency.
The decency train left the station without Koku or any NDC leader aboard hence their pronouncements sometimes leave one with an agape mouth. How any decent man can stand in a public podium and talk about women sanitry pads because that person is trying to ingratiate himself into the positive side of the President to save his job haven maligned Mahama to President Mills as the one who started the rumor about his death is plain insanity.
What kind of hallucinating intoxicant was Koku Anyido on when when he told this story about how her niece asked him whether Nana Akuffo Addo free secondary education policy will also provide her free sanitry pad and chop box full of provisions? His Niece should have asked if Nana Akuffo Addo was going to provide her panties and brassieres too. The death of President Mills has affected Koku his wife if he has one needs to send him to a Psychiatry hospital because it is the same Koku who said sometimes he calls President Mills Cell phone hoping he Mills will pick it up.It is only in a deranged mind where a dead person is called all the time and expect him or her to respond.Koku has mental problems because no sane man will talk about the menstrual period about women if the person is not a Health professional advising women about that issue. Koku Anyidoho lacks the decency and integrity to speak on a political platform and I wonder if anybody in the NDC hierarchy knew Koku was going to say such a stupid thing and still allowed him to make a mockery of himself and NDC.
NDC will do itself a lot of good if they will keep to their edict of screening Koku Anyidoho speeches before he will be allowed to deliver them. NDC put a freeze on Koku after he dismissed a ECG official on the air and attributing that directive as having come from President Mills which was later found to be untrue and he should not be speaking on public domain and representing a political party and government. If Koku is the face of this government,then we can easily come to a conclusion how irresponsible such party or government is. NDC is a disgrace to Ghana and must be voted out before Ghana's integrety is tainted.
Justice Sarpong
Houston, Texas
(CARDINAL of TRUTH)
Are you really serious? What is next, panties?Who came out with this idea of providing free pads? Is this policy sustainable since it is going to financed by this loan? When the loan is exhausted who will then buy these pads?
When we formulate these policies, do we think about its long-term sustainability?
this nonsense, and how are you going to select the recipients in the so called deprived areas This sanitary project is just going to make just few people rich at the expense of the tax payer.This will definitely go into the Guinness Book of record !
It’s a shame to be a Ghanaian under the rule of these NDC stealers !
An oil producing country going to the World Bank to borrow money to buy sanitary pads for some girls in govt-assisted schools ? John Mahama and his fellow stealers make life so difficult for parents not to be able to buy sanitary pads for their daughters , and then turn round to go and borrow money from the world bank to buy sanitary pads for our school girls ?
The Education Ministry says it is unfair for Ghanaians to single out the provision of sanitary pads from the list of items to be provided for needy students because “it begins to look like we just want to focus on the trivia”.
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The Ministry of Education has sprinkled on Ghanaians one of its not so thoughtful freebies on Ghanaians that defies logic and decency. It has gone for a loan of $15.9 million to provide sanitary pads to school girls to incre ... read full comment
The Ministry of Education has sprinkled on Ghanaians one of its not so thoughtful freebies on Ghanaians that defies logic and decency. It has gone for a loan of $15.9 million to provide sanitary pads to school girls to increase female school attendance because its own research has revealed that lack of sanitary to female students is the problem. Did they talk to Koku Anyidoho, the former Ndc Presidential spokesman?
During the 2012 election campaign when Npp and Nana Akuffo Addo were campaigning and touting their free secondary school education policy, Koku Anyidoho, the director of communications at the Presidency bewailed as to whether Nana Akuffo Addo would add freebies such as sanitary pads for ladies to use at schools during their menstrual periods.According to Koku, his niece who is about to enter secondary school came to him and asked him this question;
“In fact two days ago, a niece of mine asked me...“Uncle Koku so this free SHS thing, is Nana Akuffo Addo telling us that, I will walk into a dormitory and go and meet a trunk and a chop box full of provisions, as well as books? So does it mean daddy and mummy will not pay a pesewa? Uncle Koko, so I have just begun to… have my period, will I be provided with free sanitary pads as well?” ...and this is a young niece of mine”, Mr. Anyidoho proudly said."
Koku, I am sorry it took us this long to get back and answer your niece question but assure her for us that, we now have an answer for her; NO NANA AKUFFO ADDO WILL NOT PROVIDE FREE SANITRY PAD BUT MAHAM WILL.
Are you really serious? What is next, panties?Who came out with this idea of providing free pads? Is this policy sustainable since it is going to financed by this loan? When the loan is exhausted who will then buy these pads?
When we formulate these policies, do we think about its long-term sustainability?
this nonsense, and how are you going to select the recipients in the so called deprived areas This sanitary project is just going to make just few people rich at the expense of the tax payer.This will definitely go into the Guinness Book of record !
It’s a shame to be a Ghanaian under the rule of these NDC stealers !
An oil producing country going to the World Bank to borrow money to buy sanitary pads for some girls in govt-assisted schools ? John Mahama and his fellow stealers make life so difficult for parents not to be able to buy sanitary pads for their daughters , and then turn round to go and borrow money from the world bank to buy sanitary pads for our school girls ?
The Education Ministry says it is unfair for Ghanaians to single out the provision of sanitary pads from the list of items to be provided for needy students because “it begins to look like we just want to focus on the trivia”.
The decency train left the station without Koku or any NDC leader aboard hence their pronouncements sometimes leave one with an agape mouth. How any decent man can stand in a public podium and talk about women sanitry pads because that person is trying to ingratiate himself into the positive side of the President to save his job haven maligned Mahama to President Mills as the one who started the rumor about his death is plain insanity.
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