Government on Thursday issued a white
paper on the 2014 World Cup Commission of Enquiry presented to the
Minister of Justice and Attorney General a few months ago.
Mrs
Marietta Brew Appiah Oppong, the Minister of Justice and Attorney
General, who was briefing the media on the highlights of the White Paper
said government had accepted the recommendations to surcharge all names
that had been associated with malpractices from the beginning to the
end of the World Cup.
She, however, did not mention the names that would be surcharged and punished in the report.
On August 4, 2014, government
commissioned a three- man Committee, chaired by Justice Senyo Dzamefe,
following the negative fallout from the Black Star campaign in the 2014
Brazil World Cup competition.
Established by Constitutional Instrument
C.I 82 with CI 65 giving it the guidelines to operate, the Commission
had Moses Foh Amoaning, a private Legal Practitioner and Kofi Anokye
Owusu Darko, a Football enthusiast as the other members.
The terms of reference included; the
preparations of the Black Stars team before the games, management of the
team, financing of activities leading to the competition, treatment of
the funds generated and to make recommendations based on the findings.
Mrs Appiah-Oppong said the government
had accepted the recommendation of the Commission to assign
implementation responsibilities, in relations to payment of penalties,
and the return of state property.
The Minister said government had also
accepted the recommendation for the establishment of three teams on
Technical and Management, Funding and Financial Administration and
Management, Marketing and Sponsorship to ensure the implementation of
the recommendations.
Mrs Appiah-Oppong said government also
accepted the recommendations of the Commission that supporters should
seek their own sponsorship to participate in tournaments and the state
should not directly employ public or state funds to airlift accommodate
and feed supporters.
She said government, however, did not
accept recommendations that a special investigative team be set up to
enquire into matters that require further investigations, a situation
she added, would be solely done by the Bureau of National
Investigations.
The Minister said government would take
steps to initiate the Commission Stakeholders Review Colloquium as
recommended in two years after the publication of the white paper
instead of the recommended one year.
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