GFA ExCo Member Hit Out At Sports Minister

An Executive Committee (ExCo), member of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Eddie Doku says he is ready to take on the Youth and Sports Minister, Hon. Nii Lantey Vanderpuije.

Mr Vanderpuije after his appointment as sector Minister, declared he would bring revolution into the running of football in the country.

He has cancelled the payment of honorariums to management members of the senior national team, the Black Stars.

And Mr Doku, Chairman of the local Black Stars has indicated that he would descend into the gutters with the Sports Minister should he continue with his posture towards the football governing body.

“Nii Lantey Vanderpuije talks by heart. As a Minister he needs to talk with decorum. He always talks well during meetings, but whenever he comes out he doesn’t say positive things about the GFA,” he said.

“It would be better if Nii Lantey Vanderpuije tells us our wrongs in our faces, but he doesn’t. However he always tries to wash our dirty linen in public. Everybody has a dirty linen, so I will also wash his if he continues to do that,” Mr Doku warned.

“He should remember that as a Sports Minister, he is supposed to serve the people and not to lord it over them, like what he is doing,” he alleged.

GFA ExCo Member Hit Out At Sports Minister

Caution: Nii Lantey Vanderpuye Advised To Harbour "Nonsense" Sports Media

Veteran sports journalist, Osei Owusu Bempah has offered a free advice to designate Youth and sports minister, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye who will visit the vetting committee of Parliament as he readies to take the portfolio of arguably the hottest and most analysed ministry.

 

 

Nii Lantey Vanderpuye who has many years of experience as a sports journalist will for the first time take over a portfolio (sport discipline) that is of great interest to him. The former football commentator, retired sports journalist and ex-special aide to the late President John Atta Mills will become the 8th minister in the Youth and Sports ministry under National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, since 2009.

 

Owusu Bempah cautioned Nii Lantey concerning his work that it will come under the media microscope virtually everyday with many questioning his decisions but believed he will succeed only if he can tolerate all (insult and criticisms) that is thrown at him.

 

Osei Owusu Bempah said, “the sports minister is probably the most mentioned minister maybe besides the president of Ghana and the Ghana Football Association president, Kwesi Nyantakyi. The mentioning quite often comes with uncomplimentary remarks and for him to be successful he will need to be able to harbour the nonsense that will be thrown at him.”

 

 

“The biggest test for Nii Lantey will be his temperament and should he fail to pass the test surely we will see him replaced before the current NDC administration complete their term in office as Ghana goes to the poll in November, he added.”

Caution: Nii Lantey Vanderpuye Advised To Harbour "Nonsense" Sports Media