Mr Guss Kessie, Acting Managing Director of Obuasi Goldfields Sport Club has stated categorically that Goldfields supporters never molested Kotoko officials and players during the first round match at the Len Clay Stadium as being alleged by Mr Mohammed Haruna Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Kotoko.

Reacting to Haruna's allegation published in the Graphic Sports of today at a press briefing at the Len Clay Stadium, Mr Guss Kessie stated that the first round encounter was incident-free and therefore it is surprising that the PRO has said "it is Goldfields' treatment of Kotoko players and officials in the first round match at Obuasi which created that reaction."

"I stand here to say without contradiction of any sort that the first round match was incident-free and not even the hell of a blade of grass was touched."

The Acting Managing Director observed that the fact that no match commissioner's report nor that of the referee and the sport-writers report mentioned any problem of any sort on that afternoon at Obuasi attest to the truth that the first round match was incident-free.

Mr Kessie lamented that "so it was the result of what happened in the first round that has led to Goldfields coach arrested and imprisoned for over 20 minutes, players of Goldfields assaulted, the club's equipment stolen, club officials beaten up and insulted and a soccer fan left dead?"

He expressed bitterness of Haruna's allegations and said "this is the kind of the so called club executives who have been lying between their teeth and misleading spectators and sports enthusiasts to the conclusion of what we saw last Sunday."

Mr Kessie was of the view that because Goldfields do not have large followers to diffuse any lies peddled against them, people can conjure any bad thing and motives about them.

The Acting Managing Director said it was quite strange for Haruna to fathom such an excuses when a day before the match the Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC) had put their Anyinam Club facilities at their disposal for their fund-raising programme and in some cases we contributed cash towards it. "Is that how you repay kindness?" Mr Kessie asked.

He stressed that the time has come to call a spade, a spade and that those who are always scheming and lying should be told in plain language that, "there is no future for them in Ghana football."

Asked as to whether Goldfields will retaliate or not, Mr Kessie said Goldfields will always uphold to the rule of law as far as Ghana football is concerned.