How Black Stars’ got their $3m cash

The Presidential intervention to send the $3 million to the Black Stars expeditiously in Brazil may have resolved the row in camp, but unknown to the government and Ghanaians at home, it has been a picture for world ridicule and a nation’s shame.

Following reports that the Stars were agitating for the cash payment of their appearance fees of $100,000 each, government as announced by the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Joseph Yammin, dispatched a total of $3million by a chartered flight to Brasilia.

As the flight carrying the cash arrived, there was tight security waiting to escort the cash to the Stars’ camp.

Embarrassingly and as if captured for a movie for perhaps, such transactions not often seen in the world, there was a motorcade escort for the cash, scenes of which were shown live on many television networks in Brazil and other parts of North and South America.

In the pictures below

• Brazil security wait to escort the cash as the chartered flight landed in Brasilia last Wednesday

• Safe arrival: Security still closely monitored as the cash arrived at the hotel

• Time to disburse: A player receives his cash

• A kiss for cash: John Boye’s reaction after receiving his share

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