{"id":993763,"date":"2022-02-16T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/parliament-summon-gfa-ministry-over-afcon-fiasco\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:22:50","slug":"parliament-summon-gfa-ministry-over-afcon-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/parliament-summon-gfa-ministry-over-afcon-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Summon GFA, Ministry \u2026Over AFCON Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kurt Okraku Mantey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s messy showing at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has stirred lawmakers of the land to invite the men in charge of the country\u2019s football.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars wobbled on tired legs in the continental campaign; failing to qualify from a group that housed less fancied side Comoros, and could have even progressed with just two points from the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The team, supervised by Serbian Milovan Rajevac managed just a point from three games; Ghana\u2019s worst in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting scheduled from today to Friday seeks to elicit information from persons who led the team on the mission and come out with findings and solutions geared towards restoring the country\u2019s lost fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has stated that the committee should sit and begin comprehensive inquiry into the matter that accounted for the below average performance.<\/p>\n<p>Indications are that\u00a0invitations have been extended to the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National Sports Authority (NSA), and the GFA \u00a0\u00a0for their leaders to appear before the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has gone past 40 years without lifting the prestigious silverware.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ranking Member of Parliament\u2019s Select Committee on Youth and Sports,\u00a0Kobena Mensah Woyome, speaking to<em><strong>\u00a0TV3 <\/strong><\/em>said they want to make sure that the cause of problems that resulted in the poor showing at the tournament is stamped out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Kofi Owusu Aduonum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Okraku Mantey Ghana\u2019s messy showing at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has stirred lawmakers of the land to invite the men in charge of the country\u2019s football. The Black Stars wobbled on tired legs in the continental campaign; failing to qualify from a group that housed less fancied side Comoros, and could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,3008,1615,459,2073,5138],"class_list":["post-993763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-fiasco","tag-gfa","tag-ministry","tag-parliament","tag-summon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993763","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=993763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}