Eyewitness News<\/strong>, E.T. Mensah said the Black Stars is a national team owned by the government and Ghanaians.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”A2tSBVMVsdWw8XsvGn70Eu1DzGsKlp45″]\u201cFIFA knows that there is no country in Africa which can run football without government\u2019s support and this is happening everywhere. That is why when country bids for open tournament, FIFA wants to be sure that the government supports it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment is not asking for the impossible, but only for the monies to be paid,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
The former Sports Minister advised the GFA and Ghanaians to discard the notion that the money belongs to FIFA and not the government.<\/p>\n
The Sports Minister, Mahama Ayariga had revealed\u00a0that\u00a0 the GFA wanted to use the rest of the money from FIFA for the development of football in the country.<\/p>\n
However, the Ministry took a position that \u201cthe money should go into the development of sports in general. That the investment should not only go into football ,but into other sports as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Former Sport Minister, E.T. Mensah has supported calls for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to give government all the $8 million given them by FIFA. The Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating Ghana\u2019s participation at the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil has ordered the GFA to refund the entire amount to the Sports Ministry pending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63107,"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":[],"tags":[29,43,3,38],"class_list":["post-63101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63101","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}