A former CEO of Accra Hearts of Oak Football Club, Vincent Sowah Odotei, has called on the government to investigate reports \u00a0implicating the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in a match-fixing scam.<\/p>\n
A secret recording released by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph<\/i> and Channel 4<\/i> appeared to show GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi agreeing to a proposal from investigators posing as agents to arrange friendly matches for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n
The Daily Telegraph and Channel 4 claim that the GFA president had agreed to the contract, which included a clause indicating the agents \u201cwill appoint and pay for the cost of the referees\/match officials in consultation with an agreement with FIFA member associations(s)\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nyantakyi<\/span> has since denied even reading the proposal from the agents.<\/p>\n Mr. Odotei<\/span>, speaking to Citi News says government must probe<\/span> the allegations, and that, further delay could jeopardize Ghana\u2019s image and integrity internationally.<\/p>\n He believes that, \u201cas a matter of urgency the government must issue a statement\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n He added that the government \u201cshould, through the British Commission or Channel 4 directly, get the documents, videos, everything that they have, for them to evaluate.\u201d<\/p>\n He stated that if government suspected any wrong doing after their initial investigations, it should issue warrants for the arrest of the GFA officials implicated in the story.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former CEO of Accra Hearts of Oak Football Club, Vincent Sowah Odotei, has called on the government to investigate reports \u00a0implicating the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in a match-fixing scam. A secret recording released by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph and Channel 4 appeared to show GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi agreeing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":27179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1206],"tags":[1484,29,3,577,1496],"class_list":["post-27176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-mining","tag-cdd-ghana","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-instant-messenger","tag-vigilante-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}