Corruption: A Cataclysmic Wave in Africa
Africa throughout the first week of this month is on watching a video coverage of corruption's cataclysmic wave sweeping across our world of football. Emotions have been downplayed, trust has lost its essence and football, a major uniting Factor of Africa has lost its value and the passion to watch. You will wonder and guess how possible this has been sternly allowed to take place. It took just very few people to betray the billions of people who have entrusted their care and emotions to cause this havoc.
It has been all over the news in Africa as BBC and Ghana's award winning investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his team of professional investigators,(Tiger Eye PI) telecast a two year intensive investigation on alleged corruption around Ghana Football Association (GFA) and African football at large.
This tantrum was seen and supposed to be a rumour but Africa receive its painstaking news after the telecasting of the video. In Ghana which was the nerve center for the investigation saw the very man behind the progress and the beauty of Ghana and African football boldly engaging one of the investigators, who posed as a investor of a construction project. That is Kwasi Nyantakyi for you. President of Ghana Football Association, Vice President of Consideration of African Football and executive council member of FIFA.
He laid aside his personality in the portfolio's to act on a political grounds lobbying for a contract of which he had no respect and care for the president of Ghana. He lobbied to the point of giving out the exact destination of the President who was an assignment in Qatar without fear of what that information could have served. He disbursed an amount of 12 million dollars which was to be received through the negotiations, as follows 5 million dollars to the President, stating he sold lots of family properties to generate funds to assist him in the election so the amount will be something he will galdly accept. 3 million dollars was to be apportioned to the vice President, 2 million dollars to the transport minister, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, 1million to his deputy, Anthony Karbo and 1million dollars was to be shared betwenn him and another. He made bold claims like having people in his pocket and how he intends to take ober the nation. The president and his vice denied being aware of such negotiation of receiving a pre-information of the deal.
One Eddie Doku took a bribe of 10,000 Ghana cedis to get Patrick Razak into team B squad selection of the (West African Football Union) WAFU games.
Well check how 15 millions dollars was also to be spent.
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The shock didn't end there. It was disheartening to see about 78 match officials accept bribe to help a teams win. It ranged from local matches to cross african WAFU games. The ace kenyan referee who was called upon to be part of the officiating referees of upcoming world cup Russia 2018, Aden Range Marwa was also caught on camera receiving bribes.
Other foreign officials were seen taking 2000 dollars each per game to give wrong judgements.
Lots are out there which words cannot not describe. Countries like Ghana had a change of atmosphere as everywhere seemed tainted with regrets. It was hurting, and troubling to the point that Cheerful Ghanaians lost track of an upcoming international match against Iceland. Even the pleadings of the captain Asamoah Gyan profited nothing. That showed how troubled souls were.
It hurts communicating this story, as a Ghanaian and an African. No good precedence is being left on the screen for the next generation. There has been advocacies against corruption in Africa than any country yet the very thing we stand for seem to be what entangles our soul.
With the lives of people like Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his tiger Eye PI gives hope to Africa that all is not lost. The fight for a corruption free africa is still possible. The metrics of Africa shouldn't be threats of being caught on camera, it should be inherent not to indulge in corruption. It is possible. Anas could have traded thid information for huge sums of money but yet ge did what is right as a citizen. Let's not spectate Africa swimming in corruption, we all have a role to play.