Accra, October 27, 2017//-Ghana FA Cup Committee chairman Kurt Edwin Simon Okraku and his lieutenants are facing possible jail terms if the kick-off time for the Cup final on Sunday remained unchanged, Lawyer and member of the Justice Dzamefe Commission of Inquiry Moses Foh-Amoaning has warned.

The ‘unmissable’ between rivals Asante Kokoko and Hearts of Oak at the Tamale stadium on Sunday has been embroiled in a kick-off confusion.

The country’s sports ministry has directed the match to be played at 3pm after the FA Cup committee settled on a 5pm kick-off time.

The late directive from the Sports Ministry has irked several football aficionados who feel it has overshadowed the euphoria that has characterized the impending cracker.

But a lawyer and member of the Justice Dzamefe Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 World Cup fiasco, Moses Foh-Amoaning, is pushing for jail terms for the FA Cup Committee members if the new directive is flouted.

“We are going to push hard to ensure that the new directive is carried through. The laws of the country must be respected and we’ll not allow anybody to flout it,” he fumed on Accra-based Peace FM

“The Okudzeto Commission report is a decision of a High Court and so any decision to go ahead with a late kick-off will be detrimental to the laws governing the country.

“I will go to court and ensure the FA Cup Committee members are jailed if anything untoward happen in Tamale.

“Why must a group of people think they are above the laws of this country? We’ll not allow that to happen.”

GHANAsoccernet.com has revealed officials of Kotoko and Hearts intend boycotting the match if the directive is carried through.

The latest stand-off has its roots.

A Commission of Inquiry that was set-up in 2001 after a stadium disaster claimed 127 lives, kicked against any form of a late-kick-off of any kind in a match involving Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko.

The worst stadium disaster in Africa occurred after a match between Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko, with police fearful before the game that there would be trouble.

Hearts netted two late goals to win the game, after which Kotoko threw objects onto the pitch and broke seats.

The police fired tear gas into the stands and from the resultant stampede, 127 souls were lost.

Police were blamed in the aftermath, though nobody was ultimately held responsible. Ghanasoccernet.com