Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has revealed he resigned from the FA as Chairman due to lack of courage by some higher authorities to fight corruption within the association.
The maverick politician and football administrator blames now Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo for not trying to rid the system of corruption which engulfed the Ghana Football Association during his tenure as the Chairman.
Speaking to Ghanaweb’s editor, Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on ‘21 minutes with KKB’, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, noted that Yaw Osafo Maafo who was then the Sports Minister was very much aware of the rate of corruption in the system but failed to act.
“Yaw was terrified. I think he was frightened by the Executive Council of the GFA. He was trying to talk me out of the court case and even talk me out of the FA position. I got mad at him, he’s alive you can ask him. I got mad with him, banged the doors and went straight to my consulting room, wrote my resignation letter, gave it to a messenger to be sent to them. In less than 2 hours I had a call from BBC that it was on the news. So, this is what led to my resignation,” he disclosed.
According to him Osafo-Maafo was unable to fight the corruption because he lacked the bravery as a Minister to handle the rot.
“I know him well. Like the support I had from Kwadwo, I thought he could be very strong as a minister, so we could really change what’s going on at the GFA. He knew there were lots of rot there. He knew no doubt about it. He knew but he wasn’t at all bold and that really surprised me. What really made me mad was that he was trying to talk me out of the Football Association,” the former FA Chairman noted.
His comments come in the wake of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas' exposé on the rot in Ghana football.
Former President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi on Friday resigned from his post after President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ordered for his arrest in connection with the exposé some weeks ago. He was later granted bail and currently being investigated.
Mr Nyatankyi was caught allegedly taking ‘bribe’ from some “investors” to an amount of $65,000 and also mentioning the names of the President Akufo-Addo and his Vice, Dr Bawumia as well as other government officials in his business dealings with the investors who happened to be investigators from the Tiger Eye PI.
Source: ghanaweb
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Next news please
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SO WHAT? WICKED ant-NPP man. Go support your nephews. the Mahamas and LEAVE NPP alone!
Indeed, silence is golden! Must people always comment on an issue????
Why NOW? Anti NPP Nyaho!
NYAHO TAMAKLOE'S bitterness and vengeance has blinded his sense of logic. Was the minister controlling him as the FA chairman or what is he suggesting? It is becoming clear by the day that characters like Nyaho, and his group of *mad PhD holders are peeved due to their irrelevant status in the NPP. This is most disgraceful of Nyaho.
Was Nyaho Tamaklo as the FA chairman under the authority of the ministry of sports. It's quite absurd and irritating to listen to characters such Nyaho Tamaklo. You said else where it was wrong for the government to dissolve the FA yet you blame your failure on its functionaries in the past. It's clear in the minds of discerning Ghanaians that your problem is Persona of the President will leave no stone unturned to discredit him even if all others applaud him.
Always blaming others. look at u
Always blaming others for your incompetence and failures....you were the head of that institution and you wanted somebody else to come fight for you.....what did you do as the FA chairman then