{"id":444378,"date":"2017-12-06T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/ex-deputy-sports-minister-joseph-yamin-takes-aim-at-osafo-marfo-over-corruption-claims\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:00:33","slug":"ex-deputy-sports-minister-joseph-yamin-takes-aim-at-osafo-marfo-over-corruption-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/ex-deputy-sports-minister-joseph-yamin-takes-aim-at-osafo-marfo-over-corruption-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-deputy Sports Minister Joseph Yamin takes aim at Osafo Marfo over corruption claims"},"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,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/22627152.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Yamin Minister Sports\" title=\"Joseph Yamin Minister Sports\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joseph Yamin, Former deputy Youth and Sports Minister<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512586832_3_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former deputy Youth and Sports Minister Joseph Yamin has fiercely attacked Senior Minister, honourable Yaw Osafo Marfo for attributing football corruption in the country to the previous government administration.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a forum to launch this year\u2019s national anti-corruption and transparency week in Accra, the former sports minister alleged that corruption is the main reason behind the poor state of the local league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorruption in football got so deep after 2010 in this country and Ghanaian\u2019s are no more interested in the Local league; are there any politicians there,\u201dOsafo Marfo said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the senior minister&#8217;s assertion that corruption in football took an upward turn in 2010 did not go down well with Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe, who says Hon. Osafo Marfo has no moral right to preach anti-corruption in Ghana football.<\/p>\n<p>And the outspoken Joseph Yamin has also added fuel to the attack by claiming that the Senior Minister speaks like a serial caller of the ruling party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBribery did not start in 2010, so corruption has been part of world football since infancy,\u201d he told Adehye FM in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to fight corruption let\u2019s fight it and stop given timelines to paint to the picture that football corruption started under NDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Osafo Marfo did to fight corruption in Ghana football when he was a ministry? He is talking like a serial caller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NPP in government painted as black to Ghanaian\u2019s for not implementing the Brazil commission report but have they been able to work with the document since assuming office,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. 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