The Ghana Football Association President says Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuye is to blame for the lack of concrete decision on bonsuses for the Black Stars in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.
Kwasi Nyantakyi says management team has been denied involvement in bonus negotiations because of the Minister's "Strange modern management style."
At a media briefing in Accra Tuesday, Mr Nyantakyi said the Sports Minister has disregarded the caretakers of the Black Stars because of his belief that they are siphoning state funds.
"On the eve of the match with Uganda he had a meeting with players without management for well over three hours and at the end of the meeting the players did not have enough time to rest," he said reprovingly.
Mr Vanderpuye has had issues with members of the Black Stars management team over suspicion that they are not acting in the interest of Ghana.
Relations between him and the FA President has been frosty since he was sworn-in as Minister by the outgoing President John Mahama.
In August, 2016 Mr Nyantakyi had accused the Minister of engaging the media more than he did with the Football Association.
"We do not have any problem with the Minister; he has chosen to engage us through the media [and] anytime we hear of any meeting between him and us, we hear it through the media," he mockingly said.
Mr Vanderpuye was also to state during a media interview in August that he has nothing against the FA and its leadership.
He stated that "When the President swore me in as the Sports Minister, he told me to work to raise the image of football in Ghana high but people think I have problem with them."
"I only want the right thing to be done," he said.
But the FA says the Minister has refused to do the right thing since he was put in charge of the Youth and Sports Ministry.
Mr Nyantakyi said one of the FA conventions is that the management should be involved in decision making but the Minister's style of leadership does not permit that.
"He [had met the Black Stars] twice without our involvement. The first one was in Alisa Hotel and the second one in Tamale when we went to play Uganda," he said, adding the three hour meeting could be partially blamed for the team's poor performance.
He, however, said a meeting has been scheduled between the team and the incoming government to finalise the arrangements regarding "financial issues and the bonus structure."
Mr Nyantakyi argued this is important for the players to know what they stand to gain or lose in the Gabon competition.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Nii Lantey should watch and learn. Pee Kay, well said. Without justifying the co-efficient money sharing formula,however, this FA has achieved a lot for Ghana Football. They have made us proud for so long we have taken them for granted and think anyone could achieve what they have. Nii Lantey has learnt that this is not the case.
Oh Ghana and Ghanaians!!!! Co-efficient-way of sharing our taxes (money). Someone who is dead and gone long time, another who is bed ridden included in a list of officials to Brazil during the world cup and our monies shared co-efficient way and the sports minister trying to prevent its reoccurrence and all these insults. The minister might not be an angel anyway but credit must be given where it is due
He will go down as the worst of the worst Ga man who has a position to make a difference but failed and failed badly. Who is Nii Lante? a kobolo like him. He's a disappointment.
Nii Lante Vanderpuye will go down in Ghana history as the worst sports minister ever in Ghana. He's acting as a serial caller. He has the authority and the mandate as the sports minister to engage GFA management to make the ministry better but he choose to destroy GFA instead. This is not leadership. We need to stop appointing these serial callers and land guards as minister because they have no clue about management. This "BUGA BUGA" attitude of some of our ministers will not move Ghana forward. Being a minister about managing people, resources, introducing progressive and effective policies and procedure successfully to move your ministry forward to make the nation better as a whole. I think this guy came to the ministry with and agenda; whether his own vindictive agenda or that of the out going incompetent corrupt president my guess is as good as yours. In any way, whatever his agenda was, he has failed miserably as a minister. The ministry is worse off than before. Shame on him