Youth and Sports Minister Nii Lantey Vanderpauye has dared the Ghana Football Association to challenge him in court that government does not own the national teams.
There is a dispute over who owns the national teams after the Sports Ministry wrote to the Ghana Football Association to include them in all contracts and memoranda regarding friendly matches of the Black Stars and all other national teams.
Nii Lantey last month publicly noted his displeasure at the FA for no including his outfit in a friendly involving the Ghana Local Black Stars team and Japan.
The former Sports broadcaster has reiterated that the national teams are for the state and that he hopes that action will not be repeated by the GFA.
“ If any member of the Ghana FA feels otherwise, they can write to me or go to court and say that I am claiming what constitutionally is not my mandate and authority- so they can go to court and restrain me from taking that path,” he told Joy Sports
“I will not hesitate to take the most serious decision in the interest of Ghana football and Ghanaians if that thing happens again, I have got an informal response but it will be better for them to put it on paper so that we can continue a very healthy relationship.
He added that “Once this thing happened and I have got a member of the GFA executive committee to say oh Honourable sorry it was an oversight and that it will not happen again, I have taken it in good faith because I respect the opinion of that person and I know it will not happen again.
“We are suppose to work together in the interest of Ghana Football and I wouldn’t want to go on a path of any strange relationship with anybody- I would want to be respected and I would respect everybody.”
Dare Me In Court - Nii Lantey Tells GFA
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