Court restrains table tennis association from preventing Quarcoo to compete for Ghana
The High Court in Accra has restrained the Ghana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) and some of its principal officers from preventing a table tennis player, Ernest Mawutor Quarcoo from competing for Ghana.
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The court, presided over by Justice William Boampong entered the interlocutory judgment on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.
It gave the interlocutory judgment in default of appearance due to the failure of the GTTA and five of its principal officers to appear in court to answer a suit filed by Quarcoo.
The principal officers are the President of the GTTA, Mawuko Afadzinu, Technical Director of the GTTA, Charles Tachie Menson, Vice president of the GTTA, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, Treasurer of the GTTA, William Asare and a member of the GTTA, Clarence Amoatey.
After granting the interlocutory judgment, the court ordered the plaintiff to serve the defendants with the interlocutory judgment, the witness statement of the plaintiff and hearing notice.
The case has been adjourned to June 22, 2023.
Background
Ernest Mawutor Quarcoo is a table tennis player who aspires to play for the national table tennis team - the Black Loopers.
Sometime last year, before the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, a national selection competition was held to select members of the national table tennis team to compete in the event.
Getting to the end of the competition, the organisers, the GTTA said they had detected that some players, namely Emmanuel Commey, Derek Abrefa and Ernest Mawutor Quarcoo engaged in fixed matches to ensure that Mawutor Quarcoo qualified to join them to participate in the competition in Birmingham.
After an investigation by the GTTA, Quarcoo's chances of participating in the international competition was placed on ice.
His alleged "conspirators" were however allowed to participate in the games.
Quarcoo therefore resorted to a legal action and said it was an unfair treatment.
The GTTA therefore decided to restrain him from taking part in any GTTA or national table tennis competition.
