Anas and AG take on Kwesi Nyantakyi

Anas and AG take on Kwesi Nyantakyi

Whether or not the former boss of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and other persons in documentary number 12 were charged, sparked a strong disagreement between the Attorney General (AG) and the investigative journalist, M Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

Anas is of the opinion that there has been an unjustified delay since Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi, 77 Ghanaian referees, six officials of the Ghana Sports Authority and fourteen GFA officials were filmed in the train to receive various sums of money supposed to influence football.

The video was created on June 6, 2018.

FIFA has since sentenced Nyantakyi to a fine of 2.4 million ¢ and banned him for life, but he has still not been prosecuted.

Anas said he was concerned about the apparent delay in prosecuting the case, but Ms. Gloria Afua Akuffo, Deputy Minister of Justice and Minister of Justice, instead accused Anas of being late to provide his office with the documents necessary for an effective prosecution of the case.

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In an interview with the BBC, she said her team had indicated what would be needed to pursue the case, but Anas and her team had not yet provided their information.

Rejecting categorically the accusations of delay from her, Ms. Akuffo stated that her team was determined to continue the case as long as she had the necessary documents.

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Anas replies

However, Mr. Anas told the Daily Graphic that he had not accused the A-G of doing nothing.

"I must admit that his outfit is working on the issue. We work with the Attorney General. We exchange documents, but the process is too slow. We can be faster than we are now, "said Anas.

"The fact that we asked the A-G to speed up the process does not mean that nothing has happened. Our comment is simple, we can be faster than we are now, "he said.

On the issue of delays from his team, Anas said that Tiger Eye was not late, saying that "we send documents back and forth".

"The general situation is that our system is too slow. No matter what day I would say this. This does not in any way deny the competence of the A-G.

"Our systems are far too slow and we need to collectively find a solution to this tortuous approach to problems," continued Anas.

Context

The inquisitive eyes of Anas' investigative team managed to understand what was happening before the matches.

the near A two-hour documentary showed that 77 Ghanaian referees were taking money to influence their football match decisions.

Six officials from the Ghana Sports Authority were also filmed during the visa process.

Fourteen other officials of the Ghana Football Federation (GFA) were captured on video by taking various amounts of money to influence match-fixing.

Nyantakyi was captured, telling investors, who later belonged to Anas' team, that he had political clout and was able to drive investors to secure multi-million dollar contracts .

The video also shows that he would have received thousands of dollars from the Anas team.

Nyantakyi continues

Mr. Nyantakyi denied any wrongdoing and sued Anas for having subjected him to public ridicule in the famous documentary Number 12.

In his lawsuit of September 25, 2018, he claims damages for what he says is a violation of his fundamental rights.

According to him, the secret recording of his interactions and his publication by Anas and his team constituted not only an attack on his dignity, but caused him considerable embarrbadment because of his "caustic, adverse and social comments".