Ghana's deputy Sports Minister Evans Opoku Bobbie has broken his silence on issues regarding the Black Galaxies bonuses at the ongoing Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament.
In an interview with Success FM, Mr. Bobbie asserted the Sports Ministry did not promise to pay $5000 and $10,000 as qualification bonus to the Black Galaxies as purported to be.
Earlier reports in the media suggested, players had been promised $5,000 and the coach getting $10,000 as qualification bonus.
But deputy Sports Minister has denied, saying his outfit did not approve to pay the said amount.
"The GFA brought their budget to the Ministry in relation to the Galaxies, promising the players $5,000 and $10,000 for the Head Coach when the Ministry had not approved the said amount.
"The Ministry approved of $3,000 for the players and $6,000 for the Head Coach and informed the GFA to let the team be in the known but after 48 hours, they were not able to do so".
"As a Ministry, we cannot pay what has been promised but what is on paper. The GFA officials should have waited for the approval before they informed the players".
"So the coaches informed us of some displeasure among the players and that was the reason we needed to come in to speak to the senior players [Awako, Barnieh and Danlad]. The players have each received their cheques of $3,000", Evans Opoku Bobie explained.