Lack of financial discipline cause of unknown beneficiaries of $577,000 at GFA -- Chris Opoku

"Financial laxity and indiscipline" is Christopher Opoku's description of the difficulty for Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi to find the names of 20 recipients of some 577,000 dollars.

He said poor record keeping permeates GFA and other such institutions, fuelling consiparcies of corruption.

Mr. Kwasi Nyantakyi revealed at day-two of his testimony at the Justice Dzamefe Commission Wednesday that some 577,000 dollars was shared among more than 20 football officials made up of members of the Black Stars Management Committee and the Football Association.

According to Mr Nyantakyi, contrary to misconceptions in the public that only the Black Stars Management Committee members received $82,500 as appearance fees, any person considered to have played a part in the success of the Black Stars team both within and outside the GFA also received some payment.

When asked by the Commission set up to investigate Ghana's poor showing at the Brazil World Cup, Mr Nyantakyi told the Presidential Commission he would not be able to do that.

He promised to furnish the Commission with the names at a later date, although that was his last day of his testimony.

But sports commentator and Editor of footyghana.com Christopher Opoku said Mr Nyantakyi's inability to provide the list goes deeper than unpreparedness on the GFA President's part.

He said Mr Nyantakyi is unable to provide the list because it is very likely there is no such record.

"We heard from the testimony that no record keeping was done and I feel that it is a minus".

Meanwhile at his final day at the Commission, Mr Nyantakyi proposed a system of football administration where the President is vested with greater powers to choose his own people to run the FA as it pertains in francophone countries.

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