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"Ateyie ma Awerefire" ....This popular Akan adage literally translates: "Good conditions elicit forgetfulness" That is the only basis for which a Ghanaian footballer who starts life on a dusty community pitch faced with all the challenges of life in an abandoned continent of ours, would spend his hard earned dollars lavishly on women as if he is the first son of Computer magnate, Bill Gates.

Great Ghanaian football talents namely: ARTHUR MOSES, ODARTEY LAMPTEY, BASHIRU GAMBO, EMMANUEL DUAH, MICHAEL ESSIEN ET AL, have once upon a time been victims of dangerous money chewing Safari women who go after the wallets of innocent footballers.

Like boa constrictors in the jungle, these Clingy women will start out silent and misleading. At first, it begins with showing her best side. She’ll get close, flirt and be a wildcat in the sack. They are all around our dollar making Black Stars players so much so that they almost suffocate them with their coils. Not even an advice from King Solomon would urge these players to sit up until they are hit hard by the realities of life.

Unfortunately such lessons are learnt the hard way. By which time all the dollars might have vamoosed. A fool and his money are soon parted; the average Ghanaian foreign based player would spend profligately on fleet of cars, women, and friends forgetting that there is a tomorrow.

How could Afriyie Acquah nicknamed 'Monkey' by his own wife, have gotten himself into such a mess. From a humble beginning of playing for Glentoren Academy in the Brong Ahafo Region, Afriyie temporarily moved to BA United but had to leave camp without notice after having some problems with BA officials.

Fortunately for him, Oliver Arthur's Bechem United were lurking in the corner. Little did Afriyie Acquah know that God was going to open an opportunity door for him during a Bechem United tour in Italy. Palermo took him on, and the rest of the story is public knowledge.

Having gotten the opportunity to play for the Black Stars under coach Akwesi Appiah, mother luck smiled on him when he scored in his debut for the Black Stars in Malawi. Despite putting up a solid performance he was dropped from the Black Stars squad that represented Ghana in South Africa during AFCON 2010. But by dint of hard work and support from the local media, Acquah finally broke into Avram Grant's First XI.

The football public was therefore taken aback when news broke out that in spite of all these bitter experiences that life has offered Afriyie Acquah, he could only find a wife in a certain AMANDA who was a divorcée. How could that be that a young man starting life would marry a divorcée.

Those who attended the grand wedding between Afriyie Acquah and Amanda had to console themselves with the fact that 'LOVE IS BLIND'. Sometimes whether she’s crazy, clingy, reckless, or just can’t stop having sex with other people, you won’t care because she’s hot. After all, Dating is like a safari -- but on a safari you have qualified guards who know the lay of the land and the predators. In the dating world however, your only guide is the man downstairs, and might lead you in the wrong direction.

But even those of us with no gift of clairvoyance foresaw that the marriage was not going to work! Barely six months after , a Sex tape from Amanda went Viral. The sort of venom she spewed against his ex. husband and business mogul, Kenpong, were indescribable.

One year into the marriage, the same Amanda who was praising his current husband, Afriyie Acquah, in the first sex tape she leaked, is now claiming the Black Stars midfielder is impotent. Among other things, she said “Jordan slept with me for four years not four days. If he was going to tell my husband, he would have done it by now. Since I met Monkey (Acquah), I have never cheated,” Amanda is being captured in an audio tape.

“He (Jordan) was begging me to come back. He even asked me what I saw in this village boy (Acquah) that made me leave him (Jordan). “

“Afriyie even asked if Jordan loves me. He (Jordan) never wanted to speak to me when he saw me in Ghana with Afriyie. But, we (Amanda and Jordan) were childhood friends.”

"Afriyie is very jealous, I swear. Whenever Afriyie sets his eyes on us (Amanda and Jordan) having a chat or hanging out, he quickly gets furious and stops talking to me until I apologise," Mrs. Acquah said.

"But now, Afriyie use to complain about his ailing relationship with Jordan Ayew. Afriyie once recounted that they travelled to Amsterdam and only Dede spoke to him; Jordan didn’t. He asked for Jordan’s contact but he refused," she added.

Amanda is indeed the chimera of dangerous women all rolled up into one. Probably, her beauty made Afriyie disregard common sense and a good advice sounded like a siren’s call.

The bigger picture is that he has set Jordan Ayew and Afriyie Acquah on a collision course and this might have a far reaching consequence on the Black Stars team as a whole.

They say pieces of advice don’t change man but calamities do. This is a BIG lesson to the current crop of Black Stars players namely: Captain Asamoah Gyan, Andre Ayew, Kwadwo Asamoah, David Accam and the likes. That is, if what happened to Arthur Moses, Odartey Lamptey and the other senior colleagues in their encounters with women could not serve as deterrent. It's about time some of you invested properly and stopped the idiocy.