GFA Ethics Committee to probe Telegraph’s match-fixing claims

The Ethics Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) says it is launching an investigation into the latest allegations of a planned match-fixing levelled against the FA by the British newspaper, The Telegraph.

Nana Agyei Ampofo, the Chairman of the Ethics Committee, yesterday told the Daily Graphic that it had the mandate to probe the allegations which had been widely publicised.

“The regulations of the GFA give us the mandate to investigate any action that brings the name of football into disrepute, including match-fixing, and the committee is obliged to investigate the matter which indicts officials of the GFA, as well as Ghana football in general.

“We will rely on everyone who has any information that will help us in the discharge of this duty and the investigation will also be without prejudice to other investigations to be conducted,” Nana Ampofo told the Daily Graphic.

Last Monday, The Telegraph in its lead story and later a documentary on Channel 4 television implicated on one hand, the President of the GFA, Kwesi Nyantakyi and Obed Nketiah, also known as Nana Kwame Nketiah, the General Manager of Berekum Chelsea, but described as an official of the GFA in a discussion with some undercover reporters about fixing the Black Stars’ future international friendlies.

However, Nyantakyi has dismissed the claims and has threatened to drag the Telegraph to court.