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The Ghana Football Association has launched a scathing attack on the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for its negligence and careless handling of official documents, with media reports that the Brazil 2014 Commission of Inquiry report had leaked.

The GFA says the government communication team must take full responsibility for its ineptitude and mishandling of confidential documents. And the nation's football governing body has tasked government to conduct "serious investigations" into how the documents were leaked.

The Football Association says it is a "shocking indictment" on the ruling government for how poor it has supervised and secured official documents at its quarters, with the football body expressing grave concerns and fears that documents in the custody of the Ghanaian government are not safe.

Recent media publications in the West African Nation has claimed that the Brazil 2014 Commission of Inquiry Reports which was submitted to President John Mahama had been leaked, with the Ghana Sports Newspaper first to publish sections of the commissions recommendations.

But responding to the media speculations through its official spokesperson Ibrahim Saani Daara, the Ghana FA said it feels "targeted by the Ghana government", describing governments decision to leak documents involving the FA, as amounting to witch-hunting on the body.

"There's a lot that should be said about this, but on the merits and contents of it, if it is true, the Ghana Football Association will respond appropriately, Saani Daara told Citisports.

"It is a shocking indictment of the way documents that have not been made public have been leaked, for which purposes they've been leaked...I think that government must be examining these things",

"From the World Cup era even before you present your budget to the cabinet, it is always the case that if its goes to the heart of government, it becomes a leaked report",

"Who is doing that? for what purpose...I think these things must seriously be investigated by government..it should be very very worrying for government to have that all its documents that have not been made public are being leaked left right center, by who and for which purpose government must be interested in doing this",

"If all documents that are not suppose to be public are made public, Government should be worried.."

"This thing has gone on within the quarters of government for far too long and it is directly targeted at the Ghana Football association".

Meanwhile, the GFA has threatened to take legal action against the Justice Dzamefe Commission if indeed what has been speculated in the media is what actually is in the report. The spokesperson has vehemently exonerated the GFA from any wrong-doing and insisted that the Association's hierarchy will aggressively resist any attempt from government to have them refund the 577,500 USD distributed by co-efficient mentioned in the leaked report.

“These are speculations. They are not the cast iron reports we have received and I dont want to believe that this is the commission’s report but if they are true, the FA will respond appropriately.

"If this is the reports that we are seeing, we will have to take a legal view to it...We are certain in our belief that we did absolutely no wrong".

As things stand now we will not be able to say much because reports suggest that they are leaks.

If this is really the report, we will have to take a legal view to it because we cannot take this sitting down, we will not,” he added.

"As it is, we at the GFA feel the report was leaked with the purpose of turning the tide against the FA before even the official document is out",

"It should be worrying to government to note that since the World Cup, when you send confidential documents to the government, by the time you realise it is out in the media".