Governments have no voice in how football is conducted if they do not invest “directly” in it, according to Henry Asante Twum, the Ghana Football Association’s director of communications.
Asante Twum responded to former Ghanaian President John Dramni Mahama’s remarks about his intentions to bring back Ghanaian football if he were to return to office by calling on new governments to support the game.
“Let say we are playing an 18-club league, a 48-club Division One league, and a 20-club Women’s Premier League. If the government devotes GHC 1 million to these three competitions every year, then the government has a say. But here is the case where the government devotes nothing, and I repeat, absolutely nothing,” he said.
Asante Twum went on to reveal that the sport survives only because of the “kind courtesy” of some people’s contributions, including Moses Armah Parker, Kurt Okraku, and others.
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