Nyantakyi for Presidential Commission Tuesday

The Justice Dzamefe Commission  might attract the highest patronage yet this week when the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, and some World Cup ambassadors make their much-awaited appearance.

Nyantakyi’s appearance before the fact-finding commission tomorrow is long overdue. The FA had being dragging its feet since the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup fiasco began its work early last month.

The GFA initially sought refuge from FIFA and subsequently furnished the commission with a letter from the world soccer governing body at its inaugural sitting, but Justice Senyo Dzamefe and his colleagues, Kofi Anokye Owusu Darko and Moses foh-Amoaning called their bluff and insisted that the state had every right to hold the FA accountable for what transpired in Brazil.  

After weeks of heated debate over the issue, the commission officially invited the GFA to appear before it barely two weeks ago only to receive another unfavourable response from the local soccer governing body following a CAF meeting in Ethiopia.

But when the chairmen of the various national teams, all of whom are also GFA Executive Committee members, appeared before the commission last Friday, it became evidently clear that the FA capo would soon follow suit.

Nyantakyi, who doubles as the Black Stars Management Committee chairman, could not testify alongside his colleagues last week due to a FIFA meeting he had to attend in Zurich.