The new president elected for the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku says he will get to work immediately after he was sworn in for a four-year term on Friday.
Okraku won a close election to become the Ghana FA’s 24th president and was straight into meetings with visiting Fifa officials and the Normalisation Committee that has been running football in Ghana for the past year.
He has been given the mandate to lead Ghana football at a sensitive time after allegations of corruption, which was televised in a documentary, almost brought the sport it to its knees.
Okraku, a former executive committee member in the GFA at the time of the investigation by the journalist Anas Amereyaw Anas, maintained throughout his campaign that “our sport has sunk into oblivion following the airing of Number 12.”
The 48-year-old former sports journalist says “Ghana football faces its biggest challenge but it also presents us with an opportunity to change things and embrace all the right principles of corporate governance.”
Okraku says he would be fixing this “biggest challenge” by rebuilding trust and restoring the image and reputation of the GFA, enhancing the infrastructural base of clubs – and at juvenile level – and employing the best management practices possible in running the football association.
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