{"id":609984,"date":"2019-04-25T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 25 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>sportsworldghana.com<\/p>\n2019-04-25\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/7"},"modified":"2019-04-25T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:51:08","slug":"i-was-misquoted-over-referees-payment-dan-kwaku-yeboah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/25\/i-was-misquoted-over-referees-payment-dan-kwaku-yeboah\/","title":{"rendered":"I was misquoted over referees payment \u2013 Dan Kwaku Yeboah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 25 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>sportsworldghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-25<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/77362223.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Kwaku Yeboah Sports Check\" title=\"Dan Kwaku Yeboah Sports Check\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dan Kwaku Yeboah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Communications Director for the Ghana FA Normalization Committee, Dan Kweku Yeboah insists he has been misquoted over the non-payment of referees in the ongoing Special Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Tuesday emerged that the ace sports broadcaster was quoted by Kumasi-based Light FM to have mentioned that the delay is a result of government failure to release the funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe monies due to pay the referees are coming from the government coffers but currently it hasn\u2019t been released\u201d, he said on Light FM.<\/p>\n<p>But he has moved to make clear the purported comments, maintaining the quotes attributed to him are not his exact words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said the money is being received in tranches. We have some received some which has been used to cater for teams appearances fee and so on. We are waiting for the other tranche to sort out other stakeholders,\u201d he told GHANAsoccernet.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, there was misrepresentation and misreporting on the part about government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we can all get interpretation wrong. It necessary We set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is full Committed. Its the reason why they pumped in money to kick start this whole enterprise of a special competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn due course, all stakeholders will receive their due.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Special Competition is mainly sponsored by the government with a budget of $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Sports News of Thursday, 25 April 2019 Source: sportsworldghana.com 2019-04-25 Dan Kwaku Yeboah The Communications Director for the Ghana FA Normalization Committee, Dan Kweku Yeboah insists he has been misquoted over the non-payment of referees in the ongoing Special Cup competition. Reports on Tuesday emerged that the ace sports broadcaster was quoted by Kumasi-based Light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I was misquoted over referees payment \u2013 Dan Kwaku Yeboah - 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\/2019\/04\/25\/i-was-misquoted-over-referees-payment-dan-kwaku-yeboah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I was misquoted over referees payment \u2013 Dan Kwaku Yeboah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Thursday, 25 April 2019 Source: sportsworldghana.com 2019-04-25 Dan Kwaku Yeboah The Communications Director for the Ghana FA Normalization Committee, Dan Kweku Yeboah insists he has been misquoted over the non-payment of referees in the ongoing Special Cup competition. 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