Oti Akenteng Blasts Bechem United For Blocking StarTimes To Telecast Their Clash With Great Olympics

The Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association Francis Oti Akenteng has blasted fans and leadership of Bechem United for blocking StarTimes from telecasting their clash with Great Olympics, insisting there must be stiffer punishments for them.

Reports from the Nana Fosu Gyeabour Park are that fans of the Bechem United have blocked the entrance of the field with a heavy truck preventing StarTimes and partners GBC from telecasting the game.

Officials of Bechem United are tight-lipped on the development despite the vociferous fans expelling the television director from GBC from the pre-match meeting and forcing the crew to move the OB Van from the venue.

And Oti Akenteng believes the FA must hand a stiffer punishment to the Bechem-based side to serve as a deterrent to others.

He also described the act as primitive and obsolete.

"You think the practice is primitive as my friend (Sheikh Tophic Sienu) said and must be discarded," he said in a panel discussion on GTV.

"At a time that we want more sponsors for the league and market for players, we don't need such practices in our league.

"I think the GFA must issue a stiffer punishment to the culprits to serve as a warning to other clubs from perpetrating such primitive acts," he added.

The practice of preventing StarTimes from telecasting games live by fans is gradually creeping into the Ghanaian game after fans of Aduana Stars prevented the live telecast of their clash with Asante Kotoko at the Nana Agyemang Badu I Park.