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Dr. KK Sarpong must withdraw court case; apologise to Otumfuo - Herbert Mensah advises

By MyJoyOnline
Sports News Dr. KK Sarpong must withdraw court case; apologise to Otumfuo - Herbert Mensah advises
APR 24, 2015 LISTEN

A well-known sports administrator, Herbert Mensah says decision by former chief executive of Asante Kotoko Dr. K.K. Sarpong to sue the club was a mistake.

He has therefore advised Dr. Sarpong to show respect to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, who is the life patron of Kotoko, and withdraw any court case against the club for the sake of family unity.

Dr. Sarpong, who was appointed in 2010 as the Chief Executive of Asante Kotoko is said to have loaned the club GHC 450,000 for player transfer in his first season.

The former Tema Oil Refinery boss after serving the team on a 3-year term resigned from his position.

After several attempts to reclaim the GHC 450,000 he loaned the club failed, he has resorted to court action to get his money back.

“I think it is a mistake. And I will ask Dr. Sarpong who I do not know, never spoken to him in my life to reconsider his action, I really will. And [he must] go to Otumfuo and say I believe I have erred in this matter, and let’s move on,” Herbert Mensah counselled.

Herbert Mensah who served as the chief executive of the club between 1999 and 2013 told Atinka FM whatever one invested whilst with the club was done for the sake of the club and not for personal gratification.

He indicated that it would therefore not make any sense for one to invest in the club he or she professed to love and go back later to demand his or her investment because of some disappointment.

In his opinion it is odd for Dr. K.K. Sarpong to have taken such steps to recover his investment in the club.

“It’s a very peculiar thing for an exiting chief executive to do,” Mr. Mensah who is the President of Ghana Rugby Association observed.

Herbert Mensah
“When you enter kotoko it changes your life, very few people leave Kotoko and are still standing, you drain your sweat, your emotions, your money to the club that you love, and what you love you are not expected to now go and demand from your wife I gave you this shirt so give it back to me.”

He further cautioned Dr. Sarpong to take a cue from persons who previously took the club to court and the curse that befell them, and advise himself accordingly.

“You have to be very careful when you are running Kotoko, you can’t run it as your private business…you cannot go and take the spiritual head of the club and say you are taking him to court. People have done it and look at what has happened to some of them who have done it, all they have had in their life is bad luck. I am not suggesting that all will happen to Dr. K.K Sarpong.”

Herbert Mensah underscored: “The club belongs to the people and the spiritual head happens to be Otumfuo, so when you leave it, I left the club, unaudited account, public record, it runs into 7 million dollars…when you are developing a club especially in those days, where Kotoko was completely down, and could not even make a league match start off, the structures that we started to put into place that benefited every following chairman, was not done because the investment was for Herbert Mensah, it was done because it was for Kumasi Asante Kotoko and the people of the Asanteman and those around the country and around the world who love and support Asante Kotoko. That is the equation, there is no other equation.”

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