The Ghana FA Central Regional Chairman, Kojo Yankah, has added his voice to the mysterious sacking of the former Black Stars coach, Kwesi Appiah, insisting that the coach was sacked because he was disrespectful.
This follows the FA’s spokesperson Ibrahim Sanni Daara’s statement that the 54-year old coach was axed based on gross disrespect and pomposity.
“The decision to sack Kwesi Appiah was taken by the Executive Committee on Friday and not during our Thursday sitting,” Yankah said.
“We formed a quorum, so it made it possible for us to take a decision; hence any member who failed to attend is bounded by that decision.
“Kwesi was sacked because he disrespected us during the Black Stars press conference in Kumasi prior to the Ghana-Uganda Afcon qualifier; in a reaction to a question concerning whether he suggested the need to get him a technical adviser or not, Kwesi said it wasn’t his idea and even if the nation has money to hire him ten advisers he welcomes them.”
“As members of the Executive Committee we felt insulted and that influenced our decision regarding his future as the Black Stars trainer,” Kojo Yankah told Hot FM in Accra.
But there is a problem with this explanation, because another Executive Committee member says this is a lie.
Cudjoe Fianoo has challenged Yankah’s assertion, insisting that the committee never took such a decision on Thursday, when he was present.
Fianoo further says if such a conclusion was arrived at on Friday, then Yankah should produce minutes of that meeting, at which most members were not present.
Fianoo ventures: “We met on Thursday to discuss issues concerning the Ghana FA, but we never deliberated on the sacking of Kwesi Appiah. What we said concerning coaching was for the 3-member committee set-up to get a technical adviser for the Black Stars to submit their report.
“If they are saying a meeting was held on Friday and it was during that meeting, they took the decision to fire Kwesi Appiah and then the General Secretary should get us the minutes of the said meeting,” Fianoo said.
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