2010/2011 Premier League : Clubs Smell A Rat
The 2010/2011 Ghanaian Premier League kicks off on Sunday but while the clubs are still left unpaid from the Glo sponsorship money, an unnamed agent is alleged to have pocketed at least $1 million for securing the deal last season.
The issue of the alleged 15 per cent agency fee became rife in recent weeks following the agitation by league clubs to get full payments from the sponsors, who have defaulted, before the start of the new season.
According to wagging tongues among league clubs officials, they were expecting the alleged agent to intercede on their behalf but to no avail as Glo defaulted in its payment schedule to leave arrears for last season hanging.
While sources Graphic Sports contacted seemed to admit that somebody in Ghana football acted as an agent and made money off the clubs they declined to unmask the alleged agent for now in the hope that the rescheduled payment plan by the sponsors would go well.
However, Graphic Sports can report that when Glo decided to enter Ghana football last year, its officials were led and introduced to the Ghana Football Association by the president of the Ghana National Supporters Union (GHANSU), Mr. Abraham Boakye, alias One Man Supporter.
But Graphic Sports was unable to get the GHANSU boss to clarify the role he played, whether it amounted to being an agent, and for which he might have taken custody of the alleged payment.
Sources close to One Man Supporter, however, indicated that he was, indeed, instrumental in getting Glo to the FA and therefore, would request that national security investigated the matter to find out if someone rather than Boakye had taken a fee for that purpose.
Meanwhile, the media and communications officer of Glo in Ghana, Mr Lasisi, denied his company paid any fee to an agent in the Glo Premiership deal, stressing that “Glo does not allow third parties when dealing in corporate transactions”.