Convince Me To Pay You Bonuses - Sports Minister To GFA

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has been told by Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije they will no more receive bonuses.

Executive Committee members of the football governing body in the country, are paid bonuses after Black Stars matches.

But Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, a former boxing promoter and former president of the Weightlifting Federation of Ghana, has told them (GFA) he won’t pay any bonuses to any official of the FA until he’s convinced beyond every reasonable doubt.

“The payment of bonuses to management will have to stop. Apart from players and officials, any other person in the FA should come and convince me why we should pay bonuses to them,” the former sports commentator told Accra-based radio station, Happy FM.

“I have seen that from 2006 till date bonuses have been given to officials including Ministers. There must be a change. I don’t think it is right. It doesn’t make sense to be working for government and the people of Ghana and get paid bonuses.

“If my predecessors used to pay winning bonuses to the management committee of the Black Stars, I am the new man in charge, so they need to convince me on the need to pay them.

“I will do what I think is right and if for that matter they would have problems with me, so be it, he said.

Meanwhile the winning bonus of the playing body of the Black Stars for the last Thursday’s victory against Mozambique was cut down from $10,000 to $8,000, though the Sports Minister refused to confirm the figure the players were given.

Convince Me To Pay You Bonuses - Sports Minister To GFA