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There was yet another drama at Monday’s sitting of the Presidential
Commission of Inquiry investigating Ghana’s shambolic performance in
this year’s World Cup finals in Brazil.
The Chairman of the Protocol and Supporters Welfare Committee, Mr.
Gabriel Adu-Asare, wept before the committee Monday.
Asked by host of Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, Captain Smart why he, like the
Minister for Youth and Sports Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, wept at the
Commission’s hearing, Mr. Adu-Asare said, “sometimes you can’t control
your tears.”
He said he was saddened by media reports that his committee
misappropriated and embezzled money meant for organizing the
airlifting of football fans to Brazil.
He said unlike in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where money was
set aside by government for the preparation towards the games, in 2014
there was nothing like that.
The committee, he said, had to raise money from corporate
organizations and any money realized was paid into accounts managed by
the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
“The Ministry was the spending officers, money wasn’t in our hands so
there was no money to steal,” he said.
The former Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency in Accra said
he was extremely hurt by the false reports which he said were designed
to malign him and the other members of the Protocol and Supporters
Welfare Committee.
He said the committee failed to execute its mandate primarily because
government did not make funds available for the execution of its
projects.
The general public, he insisted, must stop bastardising the committee members.
Credit: Myjoyonline
