Western Region FA chief Kojo Yankah derides CAF/FIFA Liaison team: You can't organize football in Ghana

Published on: 17 July 2018
Western Region FA chief Kojo Yankah derides CAF/FIFA Liaison team: You can't organize football in Ghana
Kojo Yankah

Beleaguered Western Region Football Association chairman Kojo Yankah says two-member CAF/FIFA Liaison team has no powers to lead reforms at the Ghana FA. 

Last week, Dr Kofi Amoah and Francis Oti Akenteng meet members of the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) to see how football will be brought back in the country.

Government has banned all football activities in the country as it moves to dissolve the Football Association after the airing of a documentary by investigative journalist Anas Armeyaw Anas where some officials were captured on tape accepting bribes.

But Yankah, a member of the yet-to-be defunct Executive Committee, argues that meeting is flawed and inconsequential.

''The letter from FIFA on the two liaison officers doesn’t give them the right to organize football in Ghana. FIFA didn’t give them any mandate to call meetings and discuss football,'' Yankah said in an interview with Accra-based Happy FM.

''Their job is to see to it that women’s U20 make it to the world cup and the the men’s U17 make it to Niger. How does this translate to them meeting with GHALCA asking them to write their problems to them

''Nobody outside football can manage football. FIFA won’t allow none football person to run football.

''Government doesn’t have power over football but only the company situated in the country. Government can’t tell us what to do.''

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