Ntow Fianko: Clubs don’t pay fines

Division One League Board Chairman Ntow Fianko has told Ark FM Sports in Sunyani that many clubs indulge in the practice of sending the FA to court because those clubs hardly pay fines imposed on them when they lose the court cases.

Mr. Fianko says when these clubs are found guilty and fined by the court, they don’t pay the fine because the FA does not compel them to.

Court cases involving clubs who dragged the FA to face the law are rampant in Ghana football and a fan of Division One side Guan United last Friday nearly placed a court injunction on the Zone One Middle League because he thinks his team had been unduly kicked out of the competition.

It apparently took the intervention of Guan United club administrators to stop this fan at the entrance of the FA headquarters to save the Zone One Middle League from being halted.

The FA has often walked out of the law courts victorious but Mr. Fianko says the failure to make the perpetrators pay their fines, has done little to discourage other clubs from also doing same.

He has called for strong and efficient mechanisms to be put in place by the FA to force offending clubs to pay the court fines in order to serve as deterrent to others. “The practice to allow them to go scot-free is a bad precedent that is worrying our league,” Ntow Fianko said.