Let’s help save Kotoko now — Kenpong

Mr Kennedy Agyepong, a former director of Asante Kotoko, has called for an immediate end to the blame game syndrome to save the club from relegation from the premiership and disintegration.

He said the club was currently in dire straits and what was needed now was total unity and mobilisation of resources from the rank and file to save Kotoko from national disgrace.

This, he said, called for selflessness, commitment, sacrifice and initiative from all those who genuinely love the club and were desirous of helping it out of the woods now.

Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra at the weekend, Mr Agyepong, who appeared visibly sad and worried at the disturbing developments within the club, said: “Asante Kotoko need to be saved now or never”.

“I don’t think and I don’t want to believe that anybody who has served this our great club in managerial positions, past and present, would want to see the demise of Kotoko.”

Mr Agyepong, who previously served in the Herbert Mensah administration and P.V. Obeng’s board, stated.

He was, however, quick to add that “what all stakeholders of the club should appreciate now is that their dear club is at the crossroads, reeling under serious crisis and must be saved now”.

Mr Agyepong, undoubtedly one of the club’s benefactors, who continues to fund the club, said this was not the time for fault-finding or levelling of unfounded allegations against anybody, adding that “United we stand, divided we fall”.

He said despite yesterday’s victory over Ahantigold, Kotoko’s problems in the League were far from over

He appealed to the club’s large army of supporters, faithful and those who previously held managerial positions within the club to spare a thought for the club and extend a helping hand, as a matter of urgency.

Known in football circles as Capuccino, Mr Agyepong asked all Kotoko faithful, especially former patrons and chairmen, to emulate the initiative of their Hearts of Oak colleagues and come back to “Macedonia and assist”.

“We have through our acts of commissions and omissions overburned the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II in the past with issues that the Kotoko family can easily resolve. This is the time to show our maturity, love and unity of purpose,” Mr Agyepong pointed out.

He has, meanwhile, advised all detractors of the club who continued to use the media to desist from the beating of war drums and the singling out of certain individuals or groups for the present woes of the club.

Mr Agyepong also asked former officials, who wished to be considered for re-appointment to hasten slowly, adding that the major pre-occupation now was how to put the “Kotoko house in order now”.