{"id":1066392,"date":"2022-04-25T12:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/25\/i-traveled-to-japan-as-a-journalist-and-never-returned-former-sports-presenter-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:57:36","slug":"i-traveled-to-japan-as-a-journalist-and-never-returned-former-sports-presenter-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/25\/i-traveled-to-japan-as-a-journalist-and-never-returned-former-sports-presenter-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"I traveled to Japan as a journalist and never returned &#8211; Former sports presenter reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/e1461304a6b84912b73a4c5e649c8aea\"\/>Former Sports Presenter based in Japan, Raymond Yeboah AKA Atubam, has disclosed that the former GFA president, Kwesi Nyantakyi helped him secure a visa to cover a friendly match between the Black Stars and Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a chat on \u2018Daily Hustle Worldwide,\u2019 Raymond indicated that his dream country was Japan and decided not to return to Ghana after the friendly match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Raymond, he had a relationship with Kwasi Nyantakyi and the former Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah. He added that\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Kwesi Nyantakyi to help me travel to Japan because it was my dream country. He helped me get a visa, and Isaac Asiamah bought the ticket for me. After the match, I did not return. They continued the journey to Europe, but I did not go with them,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kwesi Nyantakyi had no idea that I would not return. All I wanted was for the match to end so that I could find my way out of the stadium,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atubam revealed that he did not know anyone in Japan, but he wanted to stay, and \u201cI had only $100 on me.\u201d I told someone about it, and he introduced me to a Ghanaian in Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he visited the Japanese immigration and immediately sought asylum in Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full interview on YouTube: SVTV Africa<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Helped Me Travel With The Black Stars To Japan, I Never Returned\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwrYnzBRyRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTV (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAtubam<br \/>\nIsaac Asiamah<br \/>\nJapan<br \/>\nKwasi Nyantakyi<br \/>\nKwesi Nyantakyi<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sports Presenter based in Japan, Raymond Yeboah AKA Atubam, has disclosed that the former GFA president, Kwesi Nyantakyi helped him secure a visa to cover a friendly match between the Black Stars and Japan.\u00a0 In a chat on \u2018Daily Hustle Worldwide,\u2019 Raymond indicated that his dream country was Japan and decided not to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7064,2106,8753,9004,51,871,9967],"class_list":["post-1066392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-japan","tag-journalist","tag-presenter","tag-returned","tag-reveals","tag-sports","tag-traveled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}