The Referees Association of Ghana (RAG) called for an emergency meeting with the Ghana Football Association hierarchy in order to negotiate on an increase in their salaries and allowances.
According to Rtd referee Joe Debrah, Chairman of RAG the ExCO are receiving huge sum of allowances whereby match officials receive very little allowances.
Speaking to local radio station Kumasi FM the retired referee said
"I do not begrudge the EXCO for taking the allowances approved by congress but he who seeks equity must do equity,"
"If the EXCO members are taking GHC4,000 as monthly allowance and GHC1,300 as an allowance for every meeting held then I believe referees who officiate games and are core determinants of the game need to be paid very well,"
"If referees will be paid less than GHC1,000 for a game including transportation, feeding, and accommodation for two nights then I believe it is wrong," he added.
"I’m by this sending a caution to the EXCO members that, if as the head for these referees I’ve voted for them to be paid these monies, they will have no excuse to give when we meet them demanding an increase in our allowances before the league commences. We will kowtow to the ‘there’s no money syndrome’ when that time is due. They cannot tell us to sacrifice for the development of the game because we know there’s more money,"
"They cannot give the excuse that there’s no money. We know there are ‘freedom fighters’ who will fight for us since they are taking these huge allowances,"
"When the GFA invests much in referees, we will give credible results. With that, the GFA can also sanction any referee who goes against the rules in officiating. The GFA must sit up, you cannot punish your ward for stealing whilst you are starving him," he concluded.