Ghana football is facing an uncertain future hours after a Fifa deadline over government meddling in the sport elapsed.
The world governing body issued the deadline after some turbulence in the country's favourite sport last week.
Since FIFA issued its deadline for the row to be resolved, the Ghana government and the GFA went into an overdrive to appease FIFA.
On Friday night sports minister Akua Sena Dansoa sent a letter to FIFA insisting that the government is not interested in interfering in the affairs of the GFA.
"Their (crime office) investigations cannot be attributed to government and cannot be inferred to be government interference," sports minister Akua Sena Dansua said in a letter to Fifa.
"Ongoing matters have nothing to do with central government and are purely matters being handled by a legally-established authority," she added in the letter. The row erupted last week when officers from the country’s anti-graft agency raided the GFA headquarters and ceased computers as they sought to investigate the federation.
The action raised suspicion of a vendetta as the raid came just days after an order from government to name Abedi Pele as a candidate for a vacant Caf position was rejected by the GFA.
Several government attempts to impose a coach and also committee members had earlier been rebuffed.
The removal of computers brought the GFA to an administrative standstill which resulted in the closure of the office and the suspension of all football activities in the country.
The computers have now been returned and the GFA has informed FIFA that it will resume its operations today.
But there’s still a sticking point and that is FIFA’s uneasiness over how investigations into the GFA alleged tax evasion has been carried out.
It is not know if the world governing body will accept Dansua's explanation for the raid as the anti-graft unit is still considered a government body.
The only certainty is that is that Ghana’s image as a shinning example for other African countries is in tatters.
Source: MTNFootball.com
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