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‘Awaiting’ Football administrator, Nana Yaw Amponsah is on the cusp of being named as the Chief Executive Officer of Asante Kotoko bar any last-gasp change met the newly-constituted board of directors of the club in a marathon meeting Tuesday in Accra.

The Phar Rangers owner is set to be appointed to lead the Porcupine Warriors new management which is expected to be formed soon.

According to a report monitored on Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM, the football entrepreneur submitted a 34-paged 5-year development plan document to the board members in the meeting which lasted for about five hours.

The report indicated that, In his Proposal to the Asante Kotoko board , Nana Yaw Amponsah estimated the Kotoko Academy will cost them 10 million Ghana Cedis. It would be recalled that, the Manhyia Palace tasked the new directors to establish an Academy to create opportunities for the youth in the communities.

He also disclosed that, the facility will have 3 football pitches with one artificial grass and another getting flood lights, Cafeterias, restaurants and shops, Kotoko clinic and Kotoko Gym with the state of the art facilities. These facilities will serve the community as well to get some revenue to cater for the day-to-day activities of the club.

His imminent appointment nearly hit the rocks after he was heavily linked to arch-rivals Hearts Of Oak.

Kwame Opoku has high hopes for his Ghana Premier League campaign but is being modest with his expectations as he relishes a tough opposition from defenders.

The striker tells Kotoko Express App he believes in his scoring prowess but is also aware of the opposition he stands to face due to the competitiveness of the league and quality of the defenders around.

The striker earned a three-year deal after a successful trial with the club, but could not make his debut as the league was suspended on the eve of what would have been his first game. 

Though yet to taste the Premier League, his immediate record of four goals in five games for former club Nkoranza Warriors, makes him one of the most promising young forwards in the country.

“My dream is to win laurels with Kotoko, but on the personal score, I also want to win the Premier League Goal King title too,” discloses Kwame Opoku. “I do not have a target as to the number of goals I want to score per season because competitive football in Ghana is not an easy one for strikers.”

Emmanuel Baffour and Mahatma Otoo are the only players to have won the Premier League Goal King title with over 20 goals or more within the last ten years, with Emmanuel Baffour recording 21 goals in 2011/12 season and Mahatma Otoo getting 20 goals in the 2012/13 season.

“The reason is not that the strikers are not good,” stresses Opoku. “But, Ghana is blessed with good defenders. Ghanaian clubs are very good defensively. This is a challenge and not an obstacle, and overcoming it is what I hope to do.”

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Former Asante Kotoko Administrative Manager, Ben Nti has hailed the decision that saw the club’s supporters rep as well as Asante Kotoko Old Players Association rep missed out on the new board of the club.

His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II announced a nine-member board of directors in late May but representatives of the two bodies missed out on the board despite being named on it in previous ones.

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Many have expressed disappointment since the announcement although reports indicate they could be added to increase the number to 11.

Ben Nti – who worked under the Dr. K.K Sarpong administration from 2010 to 2013 – believes it is right to kick out the supporters rep from the board since the practice is not professional.

“Kotoko is a corporate entity. The supporters are customers of the club and should not be on the board of the club,” he told Ashh FM.

“We need to grow and desist from the old practice of naming supporters on the board. They can be part without necessarily being on the board.

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“Look at the AKOPA – theirs is even technical. A former director of sports at KNUST and I know he will provide any ideas that could have come from them. Do they want to tell us that, the AKOPA members have much knowledge than him? This man can even teach them.

“We don’t joke with corporate governance. In selecting members onto a board, you need somebody with financial, technical , human resource and legal background.

“Those days where selections were done anyhow should be a thing of the past. AKOPA and supporters could be placed on maybe sub-committee that, they will form.

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“But the board members should be Professionals,” he reiterated.