A management member of Ghana Premier League Club, Elmina Sharks FC, Nana Ofori Owusu says there are plans to challenge the government’s intended dissolution of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

Government’s resolve to literally dismantle the current structure of the GFA comes on the back of the explosive exposé done by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, which was premiered in Accra on June 6.

The exposé, which was done over a two-year span, captured several match officials receiving bribes to compromise Ghana Premiere League games. It also revealed the deep-seated rot and corruption at the FA when it comes to player selection into the various national teams, and how sponsorship deals for the league and national teams are dubiously negotiated.

“We are going to challenge the process…The people who took the bribe have not been convicted in a competent court of law yet. The law requires that when a person is accused, they must get a hearing. We have convicted these people and we have ascribed to them illegalities for which only the court can pronounce. We as citizens cannot pronounce that these people have done anything illegal,” said Mr. Ofori Owusu.

“You cost us money but you don’t consult us. Has government taken the right step?” he quizzed on The Big Issue.

“The government should have liaised with team owners. When you go and put an injunction and you stop [Ghana football], how much money has the government invested in the local league,” Mr. Ofori Owusu lamented. “Name one Pesewa that government has put into the Premier League, the Division One League, the Division Two League, in the last three or four years? They have not,” he added.

Meanwhile the Government of Ghana have set-up a five-member interim management committee led by Dr. Kofi Amoah to oversee football administration in the country.