{"id":420458,"date":"2017-09-20T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/i-paid-ghc10000-as-bribe-to-a-referee-amidaus-president\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:30:33","slug":"i-paid-ghc10000-as-bribe-to-a-referee-amidaus-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/i-paid-ghc10000-as-bribe-to-a-referee-amidaus-president\/","title":{"rendered":"I paid GHC10,000 as bribe to a referee &#8211; Amidaus president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/62094967.295.jpg\" alt=\"Alhaji Baba Gedo\" title=\"Alhaji Baba Gedo\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Alhaji Baba Gedo, President of Amidaus Professionals<\/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\/1505932233_940_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President of Amidaus Professionals Alhaji Baba Gedo has admitted to paying bribes to referees during their time in the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Tema-based Division One outfit featured for two seasons in the elite league before suffering relegation in the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Happy FM\u2018s Anopa Bosuo Sports, the astute business mogul disclosed that he paid bribes to referees for favours during his outfit\u2019s stay in the Premier League but he\u2019s seen the light now that the officials are rather making money off them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI paid bribes to referees on countless occasions during our time time in the Premier League,\u201d Gedo revealed on Happy FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo football administrator in Ghana can run away from this fact. I used to pay fat bribes to referees but I\u2019ve stopped now because I didn\u2019t benefit from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s pissed me off is you\u2019ll pay the bribe and the referee\u2019s 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\u2019s them [referees] who are benefiting,\u201d Gedo deduced.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alhaji Baba Gedo, President of Amidaus Professionals &#13; President of Amidaus Professionals Alhaji Baba Gedo has admitted to paying bribes to referees during their time in the Ghana Premier League. The Tema-based Division One outfit featured for two seasons in the elite league before suffering relegation in the 2014 season. Speaking on Happy FM\u2018s Anopa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I paid GHC10,000 as bribe to a referee - Amidaus president - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/i-paid-ghc10000-as-bribe-to-a-referee-amidaus-president\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I paid GHC10,000 as bribe to a referee - Amidaus president - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Alhaji Baba Gedo, President of Amidaus Professionals &#013; President of Amidaus Professionals Alhaji Baba Gedo has admitted to paying bribes to referees during their time in the Ghana Premier League. 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