Normalisation Committee to replace GFA EXCO

FIFA-Ghana Gov’t Talks: Normalisation Committee to replace GFA EXCO

World football governing body, FIFA, together with the Government of Ghana and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will set up a normalisation committee to run Ghana football to replace the current Executive Committee of the Ghana FA.

The decision also means that government will have to discontinue its dissolution case against the Ghana FA in court per FIFA directives from the meeting.

This was the major decision taken when the Ghana government met with officials of FIFA in Zurich on Thursday.

The meeting was called for by the government after it received a threat from FIFA over a ban from international football on Monday. FIFA said that government’s decision to dissolve the Ghana FA through the court was seen as interference and that was against FIFA’s rules.

But Ghana’s government said that it had to deal with corruption as per the constitution while respecting FIFA’s laws.

Thus, the meeting was set up to discuss the way forward in order to satisfy both parties.

FIFA’s decision to set up a normalisation committee is not different from what has occurred in countries such as Cameroon in times past and the committee will have to work out a timetable and a road map to get new executives elected to form a new Executive Committee of the FA.

With that in line, FIFA said after the meeting that it, together with the government of Ghana, would establish a task force to root out corruption in Ghana football.

Another fallout of the meeting of the meeting was that a joint task force would be created to put together disciplinary and auditing mechanisms to check and punish perpetrators of wrongdoing in football per Ghana’s laws and FIFA statutes.

How did we get here?

On June 7, journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, aired a documentary “Number 12” on corruption in football in Ghana and some leading figures in Ghana football including FA boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi, were seen allegedly taking part in some corrupt acts.

As a response, the Ghana government asked for the arrest of Kwesi Nyantakyi on the charge of defrauding by false pretense based on utterances he made on the tape.

Kwesi Nyantakyi then resigned from his position as Ghana FA boss and also from CAF.

FIFA also provisionally suspended Nyantakyi for 90 days as a result of the tape.

The Ghana government went ahead to secure a court injunction on the Ghana FA as the first step of a process that was to lead to the eventual liquidation of the Ghana under the Companies Act since the FA was registered as such.

As all of that happened, a freeze was put on Ghana football and that has not changed until present.

 

 

 

 

By: Citi Sports

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