June 28 – Former Ghana Football Association chairman Nana Sam Brew-Butler has pulled out of crisis talks with FIFA over the future of the game in the African country.
According to media reports, Nana Sam Brew-Butler, part of the delegation put together to try and create a road map, won’t be able to travel due to other commitments.
Three others members of the Ghana FA, which didn’t attend the recent FIFA congress in Moscow, will be joined by the country’s sports minister Isaac Asiamah, Deputy Chief of Staff Abu Jinapor and Deputy Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Odame as they seek to steer a path to restructure football following the recent BBC expose of alleged widespread corruption involving former Ghanaian football boss Kwesi Nyantakyi .
Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has meanwhile rejected claims he entrapped the beleaguered Nyantakyi, the second most powerful official in African football who resigned from all his posts – Ghana Football Association chief, first president of CAF and FIFA council member – following a television documentary in which he was seen apparently accepting a gift of $65,000.
FIFA has handed him a 90-day ban from all football related activities pending an investigation into the allegations.
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