Kumasi Asante Kotoko have yet again been slapped with another judgment debt as they have been ordered by the Ghana Football Association's Players’ Status Committee (PSC) to pay their former coach Maxwell Konadu over $100,000 for their unilateral termination of his contract.
The former Black Stars assistant coach was sacked by the Kumasi based club in December 2020 with his contract still having some months to run.
He signed a two year contract with the club on 9th December 2019 and it was expected to expire on the 8th December 2021 but he was fired after three matches into the new season when Kotoko lost to Accra Great Olympics.
Among the reliefs the former Kotoko coach was seeking included among other things the payment of his salary form January to December 2021 amounting to $36,000, bonus from Kotoko's CAF Champions League match against Mauritanian side FC Noudhibou and the payment of his signing on fee arrears amounting to GHC30,000.
Also he was seeking the payment of GHC2,000 as winning bonus for two Ghana Premier League matches and $60,000 in damages for unilateral termination of contract among others.
The Committee in their ruling describes the respondent, Asante Kotoko's action to sack their then manager as 'hasty, premature and without just cause'
Kotoko have been ordered to pay their former head coach within 30 days the remainder of his contract amounting to $36,000, GH30,000 being the arrears of his signing on fee, GHC2,000 being his winning bonus in two matches.
The General damages of $60,000 being sought by Maxwell Konadu was declined while costs was also declined.
Kotoko the respondent were seeking the committee to surcharge their former coach an amount of GH55,300 for his use of his official vehicle even after his dismissal but the committee reckon that Kotoko had no valid point as that clause in his contract was a give and take one.
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