Ask Government to pay you – Kojo Yankah

There have been lots of pressure from the football sector to have their fair share of the NPP government’s stimulus package aimed at helping distressed companies amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

While the likes of Mauritania and Madagascar have provided some support for their football by way of government intervention, Ghanaian footballers are yet to receive any such aid.

The lack of aid has not gone down well as the former Western Region Football Association Chairman, Kojo Yankah has voiced out his displeasure on the issue.

The US based football administrator says, the football association should forget about any government intervention and ask them to pay monies owed the GFA by government.

According to Mr Yankah, government of Ghana owes the GFA over $ 4 million which was money spent on the various national teams on behalf of government with the promise of being paid later.

The former Executive Committee member is of the notion that, government’s refusal to help them during the Anas expose when they asked for help is enough reason to believe that nothing will come from government.

He believes that, should the GFA pursue government with the motive of getting their $4m to help the clubs amid these hard times, they will succeed instead of asking for help because it will not come.

He also urged the football fraternity in Ghana to do everything humanly possible to get that money from Government as he believes the clubs are suffering and that money will help ease their financial burden.

Mr Yankah has been a football administrator for more than three decades and was the boss for the Western Region Football Association until the Anas expose in 2018 when his term ended.

He has also being a critic of the current GFA president, Kurt Okraku and his administration.

Mustapha Hadji