The Ethics committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Wednesday ruled on the bribery allegation involving Techiman City and Wa Africa United during the 2014/15 GN Bank Division One League and the verdict read both teams are immediately demoted to division two.
Many football fans and journalist since the publication of the ruling have questioned whether the league will commence on the scheduled date of February 20. Upon the announcement of the league starting on the said date skeptics doubted it will believing past incidences as reasons why they have that feeling.
Techiman City have vouched to fight their demotion case even as far as with the court of arbitration for sports (CAS). The GFA announced after the ethics committee ruling that nothing has changed in relation to the 2015/16 premier league calendar.
But Eddie Doku, a member of the 5-man emergency committee of the GFA has quashed those claiming to know how many teams will be involved in the league and has asked football loving fans to remain calm as the committee finds a solution to the case and pave way for the commencement of the league.
He said, “we have got rules and regulations that govern everything football at the GFA and with the FA president a lawyer we are always guided to make the right decisions and not contradicting the law. ‘The adjudicating body have ruled on the bribery issue and per our rules we (the emergency committee) can’t rule against the decision and this means the rulings binds everyone in football.”
“We cannot, will not and are not in a position to move forward until a number days and per our rules the affected party has a number of days to react and after then the emergency committee can issue a statement on the number of clubs that will compete in the 2015/16 Ghana premier league season until then no one can mention the number of teams either 15/16 will play in the league,” he added.
Assurance: The League Will Start As Scheduled - GFA Emergency Committee
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