President of the Ghana Football Association Kwasi Nyantakyi has for the first time spoken about the $15,000 ex-gratia paid to the executive committee members of the association.
The 22 members of the outgoing Executive Committee of the FA have already received the money after their four years of service on the committee.
This has generated some debate in the media with some questioning why the executive committee members should be paid that amount.
But Kwasi Nyantakyi in an interaction with the media after the association’s 22nd ordinary congress noted that there is no problem with the members receiving the money.
“The money is not public funds, it is not FIFA money, it is our own money and like your own money you can choose how you spend it,” said Nyantakyi
“So I don’t understand the hue and cry over this payment. Why are you crying more than the bereaved, I don’t get the point. “But the truth of the matter is that members of the Executive Committee are not workers of the federation. They don’t earn a salary.
“So if you were even to divide this amount to the number of months they served in office, it is like $300. “Our key priority is the development of the game and development of the game is done by human beings.
“The best resource of an organization is its members and the Executive Committee members are the people who sit, cracking their brains to draw up policies, implement policies that are laid to Congress and do so many things.
“So to me if that amount is given to them as a reward or a thank you for being on the Executive Committee for four years, it is not an extraordinary payment.
“It does not mean that we have disregarded other key priorities and left this one out. The fact that you owe doesn’t mean you don’t have to eat when you are hungry and as a former president once said, 'ɔkafoɔ koraa didi!".
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