Ethics C’tte must sanction FA boss

Outspoken football administrator, Jonathan Abbey Pobee, has described the utterances of , the FA president, Kwesi Nyantakyi in the Asante Kotoko transfer brouhaha as unacceptable and has called on the Ethics Committee of the Ghana Football Association to apply its sanctions on him.

Nyantakyi launched a vicious attack on the former board chairman of Asante Kotoko, Dr. K.K. Sarpong and Kwame Baah-Nuako, a former director of external relations of the club over the transfer of Ben Acheampong, a former player of Wa All Stars on loan to Kotoko.

But despite the president’s recent apologies for his conduct, Jonathan Pobee Abbey, a veteran football administrator, does not seem impressed by Nyantakyi’s gesture and wants one of the 23 prescribed punishments by article 39 of the FA statute to be applied.

He said the apology was not part of the 23 sanctions which included warning, reprimand and a fine and wanted  one of these applied to the president for using unathorised means to settle scores.

“Instead of the FA president to summon K. K. Sarpong before the ethics committee to explain why he allegedly under-declared the transfer fees of the said player, he decided to use other means to settle it?’ he queried.

The   former chairman of  Premier League side, Neoplan Stars, said his call was without malice but in good faith to ensure that the right thing was  done.

He said the  country’s final football authority should not disregard laid down procedure to take the law into  its own hands.

Abbey, therefore, charged the sanctioning body to make public the  punishment that would be meted to the president

He said Nyantakyi’s conduct was unsporting, which should not escape sanctions as the only means a proper precedence would be set to guide posterity.

Story: Peter Sarbah / Graphic Sports / Ghana