Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) Communications Director, Ibrahim Sannie Daara has commended the current president of the association Kurt Okraku for his brilliant management of Ghana Football despite the challenges encountered.
Okraku, who was elected in 2019 is seeking reelection as his first tenure ends in October.
While his administration have come under massive backlash from football fans and pundits in Ghana, Sannie Daara who has been a good student of the game says the GFA boss deserves applause for his massive input.
According to him, Ghana football lacks support from the government as compared to other federations in the continents but those challenges were no hindrance to achieving much for the association.
“Over 10, I will put him on 9.8. I think so and I say this for these reasons Let me just take one point. One, Ghana Football was disrupted for two years by the COVID pandemic. and our case was very unique as compared to other colleagues on the continent,” he told 3Sports on Sports Ultras.
“I was speaking to the lady in charge of Women’s football at the Benin Football Federation. She told me the level of support they had from the government when their football was interrupted and also revealed to me that at the start of every season each of the clubs in the top tier of the Benin Football Federation gets an annual cash injection of 75,000 dollars apart from the cash injection those club could also get when they travel to play in continental competitions.
“We don’t have the level of blessing. We don’t have the attention and focus on our game from the authorities,” he explained.
Ahead of the elections anticipated to come off in a few months, Berekum Chelsea’s bankroller, Bernard Amofa Jantuah is the only one to have declared his intentions to contest the reigning boss of the GFA.
