Nyantekyi is Right

The President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantekyi’s latest comment that some Ghanaian journalists have been pressurizing top political officials for money during tournament is nothing but the truth.

I’m not the Public Relations Officer for the FA President but to be fair sports journalism in Ghana is gradually becoming a begging profession where if you don’t sing to the tune of the ‘big men’ in our society your pocket becomes dry even in the wet season and the earlier it’s condemned the better.

Most of our comrades are very much aware of this issue but they’ve turn a death ear to it because they are afraid not to be insulted in the public domain by their own colleagues for spilling out the bad beans in our midst.

The hypocrisy of sports journalism in Ghana needs to be put to bed. One of the simplest definitions of Journalism is, writing about people and structures. In doing so we should bear in mind that the mirror may one day turn on us and if it does we have to accept it good faith.

To be very honest what the president need to provide here is the lists of journalists he saw begging for those monies and also those who became beneficiaries of the Germany 2006 media relations budget as well as that of the 2012 AFCON because like the saying goes, ‘He who alleges must prove.’

By: El Amisty Nobo/Freelance Journalist.