{"id":255841,"date":"2015-02-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/my-buying-a-club-is-not-conflict-of-interest-ayariga\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T11:59:00","slug":"my-buying-a-club-is-not-conflict-of-interest-ayariga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/02\/24\/my-buying-a-club-is-not-conflict-of-interest-ayariga\/","title":{"rendered":"My buying a club is not conflict of interest \u2013 Ayariga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sports News of Tuesday, 24 February 2015<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com<\/p>\n

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\"Mahama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Under fire minister of sports, Mahama Ayariga has confirmed he is buying a Division One club, but does not amount to conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

The Bawku legislator argued the Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi owns a club Wa All Stars and since he (Ayariga) does not manage the football governing body, he sees nothing wrong in owning a club.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes we are in the process of taking over Tamale All Stars which we are transferring to Bawku and in fact I have applied to the GFA for the name to be changed to Bawku United,\u201d Ayariga told the media.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI don\u2019t see there being any conflict of interest because I don\u2019t manage the FA so I don\u2019t see how that will occur.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact the person who manages the FA is himself a club owner. There is no way there will be a conflict of interest between my job in terms of policy formation among other things and having a team for my constituency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may know that I am the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central and we should not lose sight of the fact that apart from my responsibilities as a minister I have specific responsibilities as a Member of Parliament to promote entertainment, youth development and sports in my community,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to find them alternative avenues of engaging their attention instead of having them focus on negative things so we thought that having a football club for the constituency called Bawku United will rebrand Bawku and secondly provide the youth who specifically have talent in football an opportunity for their individual development,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

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