Club presidents also need integrity seminar- New Edubiase boss Abdul Salam Yakubu

Published on: 17 December 2019

New Edubiase United president Abdul Salam Yakubu claims the Ghana Football Association (GFA) should also organise an integrity seminar for club owners and administrators in the country in bid to help develop the game.

Yakubu believes the club's Chief Executive Officers (CEO) are the biggest problem in Ghana Football as they try to convince the referees and match officials in fixing matches.

"The club chairman is also part of the bigger part of the process to ensure football get better. So we also need the integrity seminar as well", he told Happy FM

"That is why I never agreed with the Anas principle because Club Chairman should have also been captured in the video. Mostly it is the club chairmen that lobby the referees for the bribes. We are the biggest problem. The referee should be more professionals this time around. They must allow integrity to work.

"If you want to play a fix match it’s more than GH¢10,000 so there is no need to take GH¢25,000 as sponsorship money and then play a fix match", he concluded.

He also praised the GFA for helping the Division One Clubs with an amount GH¢25,000 as sponsorship money for the league.

"This is the first time we have been given an amount of GH 25,000 to play the league. We will appreciate but still we demand for more.

"This budget will only cater for something small. I don’t know the criteria used in sharing the money and also the source of the funding, but still it’s good we have something to start with.

The Football Association organised integrity seminar for referees last week ahead of the upcoming 2019/20 football season.

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