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Sports News of Friday, 19 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Sammie Frimpong\/Daily Mail GH<\/p>\n2019-04-19\n\n

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Sports News of Friday, 19 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Sammie Frimpong\/Daily Mail GH<\/p>\n

2019-04-19<\/p>\n

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\"DanDan Kwaku Yeboah, Normalisation Committee spokesperson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Growing up on a rich diet of football journalism served across a range of platforms in the early noughties, I couldn\u2019t help but admire Dan Kwaku Yeboah.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d mastered his trade, refining it by rubbing shoulders with the likes of Kofi Asare Brako at Peace FM. And even after he morphed into another role \u2014 that of a self-styled anti-corruption lord \u2014 I still retained some admiration for him, although I didn\u2019t always agree with his method of operating a smear campaign \u2014 with little proof \u2014 against top football people.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Yeboah was proven right, though he\u2019d be a bit of a thief if he claimed any credit for it, given it was wholly the work of celebrated undercover reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas last year that dug out the ugly, startling evils plaguing Ghanaian football. Somehow, though, Yeboah ended up a big beneficiary of Anas\u2019 \u2018Number 12\u2019, securing an appointment as the spokesperson for the Normalization Committee mandated to restore soundness to the stricken state of our game.<\/p>\n

It was a gig he\u2019d probably always been angling for, having previously taken repeated digs at Ibrahim Saanie Daara, Communications Director of the erstwhile Ghana Football Association regime. Here was Yeboah\u2019s big chance to prove he was actually capable of better, perhaps auditioning for the substantive job itself when the GFA resumed normal service later this year.<\/p>\n

Thus far, Yeboah has failed, starting fires where he should be putting them out and breaking connections where he should be building them. Lawyer Kofi Dua Adonteng, one of the four original members of the NC, was widely criticized over a perceived arrogant posturing that apparently rendered him a handicap and may have inspired his replacement earlier this year. But maybe Adonteng wasn\u2019t the only one who should have walked; Yeboah, if nobody else, ought to have gone as well.<\/p>\n

Since assuming office, the ace journalist has tumbled from one PR gaffe to another and already boasts a catalogue to shame Daara. Even worse, he doesn\u2019t seem to realize \u2013 much less acknowledge \u2013 his failings.<\/p>\n

Yeboah\u2019s infamous announcement of a cancellation of the NC\u2019s Special Competition betrayed insufficient emotional intelligence, never mind basic grammatical errors.<\/p>\n

That statement \u2014 still on the FA\u2019s website, rather shamefully \u2013 drew a fight from the powerful clique of Premier League clubs it \u2018shaded\u2019, further worsening an already intense impasse that, thankfully, has since been resolved.<\/p>\n

Yeboah, though, hasn\u2019t learned. If he has, well, his grasp of those lessons reflected poorly in recent remarks on Asempa FM\/Adom TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people are making comparison and saying a lot of things. Journalists who lost their chop money, I repeat, those who lost their chop money are those criticising the Normalisation Committee,\u201d he said, as quoted by footballmadeinghana.com.<\/p>\n

Sad, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Yes, sad how, when it was Yeboah hurling the criticism, he wasn\u2019t doing so at the behest of a paymaster. Now roles are switched, though, he offers a contrasting script for the public to read from. It\u2019s no longer just incompetence, people; it\u2019s plain hypocrisy and possibly worse.<\/p>\n

If Yeboah is, indeed, the link between the NC and the rest of the world \u2014 which, of course, he is \u2014 he\u2019s painfully weak. And, really, who needs a weak link for a task so delicate?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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