{"id":420326,"date":"2017-09-20T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/amidaus-chief-baba-gedo-confesses-paying-hefty-bribes-to-referees-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:30:29","slug":"amidaus-chief-baba-gedo-confesses-paying-hefty-bribes-to-referees-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/amidaus-chief-baba-gedo-confesses-paying-hefty-bribes-to-referees-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidaus chief Baba Gedo confesses paying hefty bribes to referees in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 20 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-09-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31372944.295.jpg\" alt=\"Baba Gedo\" title=\"Baba Gedo\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Alhaji Baba Gedo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505903429_29_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Amidaus Professionals chief Alhaji Baba Gedo has brazenly revealed he&#8217;s one of the destroyers of football in the country after making a shocking revelation of investing more than 10,000 Ghana cedis  into bribing referees.<\/p>\n<p>In the most damning admission yet about the scale of corruption being perpetuated by &#8216;nation wreckers&#8217;, the self-confession has indicted the businessman and exposed him as an obnoxious character who influence the outcome of league matches and later blame the Ghana Football Association of nourishing the malaise.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe tough-talking football administrator has exposed himself as a &#8216;nation wrecker&#8217; who is part of corrupt ringleaders who influence outcome of matches by bribing referees.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGedo has been a fierce critic of the Ghana FA claiming the federation is corrupt but appears to have nailed his own coffin by admitting to the scandalous allegations.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe confessed he paid the backhanders to match officials during his side&#8217;s stint in the Premier League.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe told Accra-based Happy FM on Wednesday:  &#8220;I paid bribes to referees on countless occasions during our time time in the Premier League,&#8221; he shamelessly revealed&#8221;No football administrator in Ghana can run away from this fact. I used to pay fat bribes to referees but I&#8217;ve stopped now because I didn&#8217;t benefit from it. I once paid 10,000<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;What&#8217;s pissed me off is you&#8217;ll pay the bribe and the referee&#8217;s will still go ahead and rob you, which means he has collected bribe from your opponents as well, so at the end of the day it&#8217;s them [referees] who benefit,&#8221; Gedo deduced.<\/p>\n<p>GHANAsoccernet.com revealed last year that several referees are in the pockets of many club owners yet turn anticlockwise to accuse the FA of festering the shameful act. <\/p>\n<p>Some of these crooked football officials have consistently battered and bruised the image of the Ghana FA while been the major architects in the damning and disgraceful acts.<\/p>\n<p>The action of football characters like the Amidaus Professionals President has caused the FA&#8217;s brand, reputation and business relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Premier League is suffocating under financial stress largely due to perceived corruption with the FA targeted as the major culprits.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s emerging some crook characters who are masquerading as club owners are rather instrumental in stifling the growth of the game in the West African nation.<\/p>\n<p>Amidaus Professionals were plunged from the Ghana top-flight after the 2013\/2014 season and have failed to chart their way back- maybe he has run out of funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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