Liberty Professionals: Sly Tetteh’s family to take legal action against CEO over club’s new model
The co-founder and family of Liberty Professionals’, the late Sly Tetteh is planning to take legal action against current CEO Felix Ansong, Sly’s old friend.
On Tuesday, June, 19,2023, Liberty Professionals which is based in Dansoman announced a new business model to focus on talent development and divested its Division One slot to Hohoe United.
“Started originally as an academy, the club will seek to re-establish its reputation as a world-class developer of Ghanaian football talent,” the club announced.
According to the club, combining talent production and competition in top divisions has been difficult due to financial problems.
The club was originally founded in 1996 by former footballers Sly Tetteh and Alhaji Issah Inusah who claims Felix Ansong has failed the club and Ghana football.
“I don't think that's right, you look at the situation you say Ansong is a failure. He can’t run the club. This is Liberty Professionals and we were built properly”.
“The reality is that Felix Ansong cannot take this path. Liberty professionals will not be changed. It will stay and remain Liberty professionals.
“We are doing our homework I've gotten in touch with the family lawyer and so we are pretty much ready for a shakeup.” Without a doubt. The family will take legal action against the so-called sole owner of the club,” he stated.
Club Acquisition
After acquiring the club which was known as Okyeman, Sly Tetteh and his partner Inusah Issah changed the club’s name to Liberty Professionals with the help of the National Chief Imam. The owners were in search of a club office In Dansoman. Sly Tetteh’s friend Felix Ansong who lived in Dansoman offered an office and that’s how he came into the picture.
After the death of Sly Tetteh in September 2011, Inusah witnessed as the bereaved family handed a 50% share of the club to Felix Ansong, the current CEO.
Felix Ansong in recent years has been accused of sidelining Sly Tetteh’s family in the running of the club.
“Now teams have turned around a few years later, after a decade. Ansong is claiming ownership because nobody is running down on him, And is sad,” Issah Inusah emphasised.