A member of Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford has described as rather confusing and pretentious, the apology of embattled Ghana Football Association Boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi following an expose on corrupt dealings he supervised under his tenure as President.
Mr. Hayford, speaking on CitiTV’s analysis programme, ‘The Big Issue’ Saturday questioned why Nyantakyi would apologise for his actions when he very well was in the knowing when he engaged in each corrupt act.
He believes it is pretentious that anyone will apologise after being ‘caught’ in an act.
“Why is he apologizing and giving all these long long long excuses. He was scammed and so he lost all his faculties because he was scammed? Somebody comes and offers you $65,000, you take it, bag it and carry it and then you are complaining about scamming?”.
Mr. Hayford likened the latest revelations to Ghana’s disastrous Brazil 2014 World Cup Campaign and issues that followed, necessitating the setting up of a commission of enquiry; the Dzamefe commission. The Commission which was set up by Former President John Mahama after Ghana’s exit from the 2014 World Cup to find reasons for the poor performance uncovered a number of issues including several cases of alleged embezzlement of state funds as well as the reason behind the infamous airlifting of 3 million dollars to pay Black Stars players.
According to Mr. Hayford, such happenings have had room as a result of the inability of persons in leadership to hold accountable and sanction individuals they find engaging in corrupt activities at any given point in time.
“I know that we are all trying to blame this on a bigger issue we have in the country but you see when you persistently allow people to get away with things like this, you will get to this point all the time, everytime!!”
“Have you forgotten the dzamefe commission? Grown up people went to cry like babies and we had a whole seasoned judge sitting there and allowing them to carry on like that, even offering them tissue, he should have walked them out.
“That’s no place to come and shed crocodile tears. Dzamefe should have understood that all they were doing is what Nyantakyi is doing now, rendering an apology after the facts as a way out of the dilemma. At the end of the day what happened with Dzamefe and that commission? Isn’t the report still sitting there? What was the end result?. How then do you expect that the people of Ghana will sit down and think, we have to be upright citizens?” he posited.
He believes the outrage of Ghanaians following the screening of Anas’ ‘Number 12’ documentary is not as related to the level of corruption they witnessed as it is to how violated they feel having realized that their teams were cheated severally leading to the loss of many matches.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Is this man SANE?? Of course Kwasi owes us an unqualified apology. After all he’s made us endure, he is civilized enough to apologize. This greatly detracts from your ***barred word*** and ***barred word*** propaganda you unleashed on Ghana which has saddled Ghana with this trashy government which is draining out all initiative of hard working Ghanaians.
Yes,It is unfortunate Nantakyi is being singled out at this moment. Where is Elvis Afriyie Ankrah "The Inkubetor" who and his Gang did a similar thing in Brazil??? Where is he?? He has gone underground to enjoy his share of the money and all the riches they amass under the Abrante3 President. Yes Ghanaians have short memory!!!!!! We have so soon forgotten all. After the initial noise. The Dzamefe commission report need to be revisited. Our President turn a blind eye on that when he was once asked about the update. And when he now got his name in the latest expose he is running to the CID. If you try to manipulate justice, this is what you get.
In the country where I reside at the moment, there is nothing wrong offering a tissue. After that, you will be jailed.