Africanfootball.com has exclusively reported
that Hearts of Oak Managing Director Neil
Amstrong-Mortagbe has been sacked after only
just ten months in-charge.
The decision was taken by the club's board on
Monday evening after recent mounting
allegations of misconduct against the FIFA
marketing consultant.
There is also a strong opinion among board
members that he contributed to the departure
of coach David Duncan whose sacking cost the
club a wallet thumping $40,000.
Recent unimpressive results for the club also
compounded his problems but the allegations of
misconduct against the staunch Hearts
supporter looks to have forced the hand of the
board.
"He has been told to step aside and a committee
will be set up to look into those allegations of
misconduct," a highly-placed source within the
board confirmed to Africanfootball.com, Africa's
leading football news website.
"He was told to prepare his handing over notes."
Mortagbe's future has been speculated the last
few weeks in the Ghanaian media but the club
last week issued a statement to rubbish those
and claimed he was still at post.
A publication by the state-owned Graphic Sports
last Monday claimed Mortagbe used the club's
letterhead in an illegal visa application scandal.
This resulted in his arrest and sent to the
Darkuman Police station only to be bailed by a
fellow Hearts board member.
Mortagbe came under scrutiny after how a US$
1,000 gift from a club sympathiser to captain
Moro Abubakar was paid in two instalments
within three months when the amount was
passed through him.
He was appointed in July last year and
supervised one of the club's worst campaigns in
the Ghana top-flight.
Hearts are not in contention to win this season's
league with three matches left and were kicked
out of the MTN FA Cup at the round of 32 stage
by Division One League side Gold Stars.
