Former Vice-Chairman of the Ghana Football Association, Joseph Ade Coker has emphasized that the coach for the Black Stars should not earn wages more that the President of the country.
Appointed in January this year, Coach CK Akonnor is on a monthly salary of $25,000. Although he has reportedly not received any pay for the period that he has been in charge of the team, the Ministry of Youth and Sports has decided to cut his pay by 40% due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking to Angel FM on Monday night on the salary of the Black Stars coach, Ade Coker has stressed that it is irrational for the gaffer to be taking more pay than President Nana Addo.
“If the President of Ghana is getting 20,000 Ghana Cedis at the end of the month, why must a local Ghanaian coach with the white man’s certificate receive 25,000 dollars. It is, therefore, irrational for the Black Stars coach to receive more salary than the President of Ghana. In terms of trophies, what is there to show? It is therefore a mismatch. I would suggest that our resources are spread across the sporting field…which we can benefit from”, Mr. Coker said.
He added, “We don’t have the players with international quality to deserve the money we are paying them. The money should be used to develop the sports at the lower level.”
He further shared that there should be a salary structure in place to decide how coaches will be paid.
“We must look at the level of the economy and structure a salary system for the coaches after all, the coaches are local coaches with foreign certificates. If any worker attains a PhD from a foreign country and decides to work here in Ghana, he will be paid per the salary structure here and not according to what is paid outside”, Ade Coker explained.