Parliament To Meet GFA Over League Delay.

A Parliamentary Committee on Youth, Spots and Culture has written to the Ghana will meet he Ghana Football Association for a meeting to discuss issues surrounding the delay of the Ghana Premier League.

The Ghana Premier League has for the second successive year, failed to follow the football calendar of the country due to legal issues before the adjudicating body of the FA.

The 2014 / 2015 premier league campaign was delayed by about six months when King Faisal Babies and Aduana Stars were tussling each other over latter’s failure to meet a deadline on the FA rules.

The Ghana FA were petitioned to make their rules work, but they were denied.

And 2015 / 2016 is following a similar pattern as alleged match-fixing case before the Ethics Committee has delayed the league by three months. The FA has fixed a date for the commencement of the new season, but a Parliamentary select committee wants answers to the why delay.

“We’re writing a letter to invite the GFA to find ways to solve the issues as quickly as possible for once and for all. Honestly, it is not good, last year we suffered the same thing and this year too we encountered it, it’s not good,’’ Hon. Kobina Mensa Woyome, MP for South Tongu, a member for the parliamentary select committee on Youth, Sports and Culture told Kumasi-based Boss FM.

“We have been following (the current issues surrounding the delay of the league) and we are not happy about it. We have gathered some information but it’s always good to talk with GFA.

“So a letter will be going to the GFA so that they can come and brief us what’s going on at their end, so that we will know how to solve them as quickly as possible,” he Added.

Honourable Kobina Mensa said the select committee has been silent due to oversight of responsibility, but have chosen to act on this issue because the Ghana Football Association manages football in the country.

“We have oversight responsibility about all the sports activities in the country which of course the Ministry of Youth and Sports oversee hence, we have an interest because the GFA manages our national teams.

“The running of the league is more or less like a private issue but once it has some bearing on selection into the national teams, we need to put measures in place to solve those issues.” he said.

Parliament To Meet GFA Over League Delay.