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Sports News from Friday, February 8, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-02-08
Anas responded to Nyantakyi's terrorist commentary
Seven months after the start of the PI Tiger Eye PI briefing on the corruption in football that led Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi to the post of internationally renowned football administrator, the former president of the Ghana Football Federation (GFA) still feels that it has done nothing wrong.
He added that the Tiger Eye PI operated as the terrorist group ISIS.
But, Mr Anas Aremeyaw Anas refuted the effusions of the Ghanaian federation president Ghana, banned, and besieged would not deter him from fighting corruption.
Nyantakyi is talking
Nyantakyi yesterday accused Anas and his PI Tiger Eye team of stealing $ 400,000 from the United States in the GFA.
According to him, his detractors within the GFA sponsored the $ 400,000 Anas exhibition because they wanted him back as president of the GFA in every possible way.
"Yes, it was sponsored.What they did was not an investigation," Nyantakyi said yesterday on NET 2, a private television channel in Accra.
Breaking his silence on the circumstances of his involvement in the so-called video n ° 12 chronicling football scandals in Ghana and Africa that erupted in June 2018, Mr. Nyantakyi described Tiger Eye PI as a criminal organization operating as a terrorist group ISIS.
No license
According to Mr. Nyantakyi, Tiger Eye PI did not have the right to do what he did: go around, organize people, register them and embarrbad them. Tiger Eye PI is a criminal organization that operates as ISIS.
He stated that it was illegal for the PI Tiger Eye to install people, register them and embarrbad them in public.
Anas denies
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Anas denied the accusations, saying his team has done a lot over the years in denouncing corruption, which is a danger to society.
He stated that he remembered the lawsuit for defamation that he had brought against Mr. Nyantakyi for an amount of 25 million GH ¢. For that reason, he did not want to follow Mr. Nyantakyi's course of action.
He said, however, that exposing corruption for the greater benefit of society amounts to terrorism, "you can call it terrorism against corruption."
Nyantakyi banned
In October 2018, the judging chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee of FIFA banned for life Mr. Nyantakyi from participating in all activities related to football.
The Trial Chamber found Mr. Nyantakyi guilty of violating Articles 19 (conflict of interests), 21 (bribery) and 22 (commission) of the FIFA Code of Ethics, 2012 edition. .
Mr. Nyantakyi was also fined 500,000 Swiss francs (more than 2.4 million GH ¢).
According to a FIFA statement, Mr Nyantakyi was informed of the ban on 30 October 2018.
The Trial Chamber opened an official investigation into Mr. Nyantakyi's activities after it was filmed, apparently accepting a "cash gift" in an undercover documentary titled Number 12.
Number 12
Mr. Nyantakyi was filmed in the secret investigation by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in the process of earning $ 65,000 (£ 48,000) from an undercover journalist pretending to be a police man. ;business.
Shortly after the ban on June 8, Nyantakyi resigned from his position in the world governing body of football, FIFA, and the African Football Confederation (CAF).
He left his role on the FIFA Council and stepped down from his roles at CAF, notably as the first vice president, the confederation's highest personality after his president, Ahmad.
In addition to the suspension of FIFA, Nyantakyi also resigned from his presidency of the GFA on June 8, 2018 as a result of a meeting of the executive committee.
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