Revealed: Why Wilfred Osei Palmer was disqualified from contesting for GFA president
Owner and President of Division one side Wilfred Osei Kwaku Palmer was on Friday disqualified by the vetting committee of the GFA Normalization Committee.
This follows vetting committee conducting interviews and integrity checks done on all candidates contesting for various positions in the new look GFA.
On Friday 4th October 2019, the committee made public the results of their vetting and integrity check.
Even before that rumours was rife that some three persons within the erstwhile Kwassi Nyantakyi administration had been disqualified but as it turned out only Wilfred Osei Palmer was the casualty but reasons behind his disqualification has been explained by the committee in a letter to the Normalization Committee
1. Breach of Article 33(5)(c) of the GFA General Regulations
With the above reason, the rule states that “Ten (10) percent of all training and transfer fees in respect of
external transfers, shall be paid into a Football Development Fund”. Where five percent will go the GFA and the other five will be paid to the Ghana League Club Association (GHALCA). If it’s of juvenile transfer then the five percent will be paid by GHALCA to the National Juvenile Committee.
2. The decision of the Ethics Committee dated 13th December 2017
Palmer in 2018 was told to retract a statement he made after the Black Stars failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
The former Vice Chairman of the Black Stars attributed Ghana’s inability to qualify to not paying unclassified indemnity to referees in an interview with Citi Fm .
“I was quite surprised that Ghanaians and the media sided with former Sports Minister Nii Lante Vanderpuye [about not budgeting for indemnities] when the government white paper on the Dzamefe Commission report clearly indicated that unclassified payments were legal in the concept of our budget.”
“If we had spent around $300,000 dollars [on referees] and stood to benefit about $8 million [by appearing at the World Cup], I see nothing wrong with it,” he added
The Ethics Committee of the GFA reacted to the issues by ordering Osei Palmer to withdraw his statement.
“I have received the letter from the ethics committee and I am ready to comply with the decision of the committee.- Palmer confirmed receiving a statement from the ethics committee on Accra based Peace Fm
“They are my colleagues and they also accept their mistakes during our meetings so there is nothing wrong with what they are asking me to do. I know that if I don’t this I will lose my job,” he added.
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