We Will Not Interfere In Your Affairs – Bawumia Assures GFA

Vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured the Ghana Football Association that government will not interfere in their dealings.

Dr Bawumia made this utterance when the CAF president, Ahmad Ahamd and his Executive Members visited him at the flagstaff house in Accra on Friday September 22.

“There’s passion for the game, there’s interest in the game and that interest amongst our people is also translated into the interest by the government. We want to make sure soccer does well and football is governed properly and so on and so, we’ll do everything in our capacity for the development of football,” he stated.

“We don’t really want to interfere in the management of football, but we want to provide the environment for that management to benefit the country. So we have very high expectations of the administrators of football. We are very privileged as a country to host the African Women’s Championship in 2018.

“I think our President is also very happy because he’s the AU gender champion so anything to do with women, he’s very interested. For us to have the opportunity to host the African Women’s Championship for the first time is a great one,” he added.

Ahmad Ahmad arrived in the country on Thursday and will be expected to be in attendance at the Alhaji Sly Tetteh Memorial Lectures on Friday evening.

A CAF Executive Committee meeting will be held in Accra on Saturday, September 23, where some key decisions on African football are expected to be taken.

The entire delegation will then travel to Cape Coast, where they will watch the final match of the WAFU Cup of Nations tournament between Ghana and Nigeria on Sunday.

The CAF delegation is expected to depart on September 25.