Hearts Officials Ban Reduced

The Appeals Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has reduced the bans on two officials of the Hearts of Oak, but upheld the fine.

Barimah Atuahene (Board Member) and Kwame Opare Addo were banned and fined two years and GH¢ 6,000 respectively.

The club exercised their right to appeal the ruling of the Disciplinary Committee, pleading for the adjudicating body ‘temper justice with mercy’.

The Appeals has reduced the ban imposed on the officials, reducing the it one year, but withheld, thus, they will play the GH¢ 6,000.00 each as imposed by the DC.

Hearts Officials Ban Reduced

We Don"t Fear Injunction - GFA Veep

Vice president of the Ghana Football Association, George Afriyie has said that the football governing body are not afraid of being served an injunction after Techiman City were confirmed participants in the upcoming premier league season.

Techiman City, a club found guilty of alleged match-fixing with Wa Africa United to influence results of their match week 22 Division One League fixture last year, were demoted to the Division Two by the FA Ethics Committee.

The ruling by the adjudicating body of the FA reduced the number of participating teams in the league to fifteen, but with the FIFA Connect System closed, there were questions over whether the league will be halted indefinitely or it will be competed for by fifteen teams.

Techiman City filed an appeal and a stay of execution but the Appeals Committee is yet to respond to the request placed before by the Techiman based club.

The FA announced that the plans for league remains unchanged meaning, Techiman City will play in the league.

Club administrators are threatening to place an injunction on the start of the league but the FA insist they are not afraid of the threats.

“We are not afraid of any injunction,” passionate George Afriyie told sportscrusader.com

“We respect the works of the subcommittees mandated to sit on cases of the FA and we are not going against that but what we are saying is that the league will go on as planned.

“If someone should place an injunction on the league, we have other fifteen clubs or fourteen clubs ready to play. ” he said.

We Don"t Fear Injunction - GFA Veep

Techiman City Will Surprise Everyone - Mickey Charles

President of Techiman City Football Club, Charles Kwadwo Ntim has said that Techiman City will play in th Ghana Premier League without any problems.

Techiman City were demoted to the third tier of Ghana football — Division two for alleged match-fixing to influence results of their match week 22 Division One League fixture against Wa African United.

The Techiman-based club has appealed the decision reached by the Ethics Committee but the Appeals committee is yet to respond to the Club’s request.

But the filing of an appeal and stay of execution according to Article 37 (17) means Techiman City is still a premier league club.

And Charles Kwadwo Ntim popularly known as Mickey Charles in football circles says the team is ready for the league and will surprise football fans in the country.

“Techiman City was prepared and is still prepared for the league,” Mickey Charles told sportscrusader.com.

“Coach Yussif Abubakar is ready with his boys and I can tell you Techiman City is going to play the Premier League (this season) and there will be full of surprises.” He stated.

Techiman City will host Berekum Chelsea at the on Match Week One of the premier league on Sunday at the Techiman Park.

Techiman City Will Surprise Everyone - Mickey Charles

GFA Releases Names Of Legal Committee Members

Ghana Football Association (GFA) has released the list of members onto the various committees of the association to see to the running of football in the country for the next four years.

 

 

The legal team herein (disciplinary, ethics and the appeals committee) have been blamed for applying nepotism and favouritism to its rulings and many football fans will hope the names attached to the various committees are competent enough to help deal with club-club and club-player cases that lasts longer at the FA than it should and tends to either prolong a start to the league.

Corporate Ghana have also cited litigation in football as one of the many reasons why they refuse to associate with the game.

APPEALS CCOMMITTEE

1. EMMANUEL ANNAN – CHAIRMAN

2. ALHAJI FAROUK SEIDU – VICE CHAIRMAN

3. KWAME TAKYI

4. CLAUDE OPPONG

5. ALHAJI SALIFU SEIDU

6. BAFFOUR AKOTO

7. OWUSU ANSAH AWERE

8. VINCENT EBOW AIKINS

9. EUGENE AKOTO BAMFO

10. DIVINE SUNU

 

ETHICS COMMITTEE

1. D. C. O. P. KOFI BOAKYE – CHAIRMAN

2. NANA BENYIN AHINSAN – VICE CHAIRMAN

3. ISHAK ALHASSAN

4. PROF. G. AMARH

5. ADDAI KYEREMEH

DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE (1)

 

1. PROSPER HARISON ADDO – CHAIRMAN

2. EVA OKYERE – VICE CHAIRMAN

3. GODSWAY GLAH

4. W. O. II W. AMOO

 

DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE (2)

 

1. COSMOS AMPENGNUO – CHAIRMAN

2. GEORGE AMISSAH – VICE CHAIRMAN

3. ALEX KOTEY

4. NURUDEEN ALHASSAN

5. OSEI KWADWO ADDO

GFA Releases Names Of Legal Committee Members

Ghanaian Clubs Got To Be Sensible - GFA Veep

Vice president of the Ghana football association and chairman of the Black stars management committee, George Akwasi Afriyie has had pop shot at Ghanaian club in relation to their attitude during the pre-match and post match session of game.

 

 

The Ghanaian league has delayed its start to the 2015/16 season due to legal wranglings involving newly promoted side, Techiman city and Wa African united and Wilfred Osei Palmer’s ineligible player case against Kurt Okraku Mantey’s Dreams FC.

Clubs in Ghana are noted for their weird and archaic motives when it comes to the release of team news and tactics to be employed by a coach going into a game and quiet often this negative ideas has to do with ‘juju’ – black magic. This semantics and childish play causes undue delay to games and at times a club’s refusal to play the game when money and resources have been invested into the match.

 

 

George Afriyie believes most clubs if not all tow this ‘cheap’ path due to the number of legal options available to them should they be punished – deducted points, banned from playing at their favourite home grounds or given a fine.

 

“We must enshrine just two legal options for clubs to have their cases heard and not the numerous options – appeals committee, review committee and court of arbitration (CAS) currently available, just two should do,” he said.

 

“A club attends a technical meeting and forgets to present the uniform (jersey) for the upcoming match should be deducted points meanwhile a body or someone has paid for media rights. A scheduled game to be broadcast on super sports at 3pm is delayed or called off because a club failed to submit a sample of the kit for the game. Is that sensible for a club to do?” he added.

The Ghana league us set to commence on Feb 20 but head od the legal team for Techiman City has threatened to serve the league with a court injunction should it start.

Ghanaian Clubs Got To Be Sensible - GFA Veep