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Spokesperson for coach Kwesi Appiah, Asante Forkuo has rebuked the President of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt ES Okraku for comparing Appiah to others the GFA owes, noting that Appiah does not care about those GFA owes as proclaimed.
Okraku in an interview Thursdays disclosed that the former Black Stars coach is not the only person owed by the association and should therefore, exercise patience.
“It’s unfortunate he [Kwesi Appiah] went public, but it’s his singular Prerogative and let me say it’s not only Kwasi Appiah who is owed, Stephen Appiah is owed, Richard Olele Kingston is owed too and even Avram Grant was owed but it has been cleared,” Okraku told Sports Check’s Daniel Oduro.
But reacting to the GFA Capo’s comment, Asante Forkuo said:
“Kwasi Appiah’s contract and salaries issues are different from that of Stephen Appiah and Richard Kingston,so the GFA President should not make such comparisons at all,” he told Sunyani-based Space FM.
“The GFA wrote to coach Kwasi Appiah when they thought they (FA)did not need his services in the National team again, so what prevents the FA from going the same way by writing to Kwasi Appiah to tell him something about his owed salaries. We don’t care about who else the GFA is owing as claimed by the FA President.
He continued:”We have written to the GFA on the coach’s unpaid salaries but they are yet to reply us.
He also disclosed that the lawyers of the former Ghana international will send a third letter to the Ghana FA after which they will know the next decision to take.
“We will write to them for the third time to remind them ,if they don’t get back to us , we shall take the next step.
“We knew some expatriate coaches who refused to leave the country until the GFA had paid them their owed salaries.They stayed in hotels and incurred huge sums of debts on the neck of the GFA until they were paid,” he added.
The Ghana Football Association decided not to renew Appiah’s contract after it expired December last year.
But his salaries from August to the December were unpaid. (GFA) owes as proclaimed by the Kurt ES Okraku.
Okraku in an interview Thursdays disclosed that the former Black Stars coach is not the only person owed by the association.
“It’s unfortunate he [Kwesi Appiah] went public, but it’s his singular Prerogative and let me say it’s not only Kwasi Appiah who is owed, Stephen Appiah is owed, Richard Olele Kingston is owed too and even Avram Grant was owed but it has been cleared,” Okraku told Sports Check’s Daniel Oduro.
But speak to Sunyani-based Space FM, Forkuo narrated the ordeal Appiah’s camp have gone through in an attempt to ensure that Appiah is paid his outstanding salaries.
“Kwasi Appiah’s contract and salaries issues are different from that of Stephen Appiah and Richard Kingston,so the GFA President should not make such comparisons at all.
He indicated that the GFA have not replied to letters they have sent to them
“The GFA wrote to coach Kwasi Appiah when they thought they (FA)did not need his services in the National team again, so what prevents the FA from going the same way by writing to Kwasi Appiah to tell him something about his owed salaries. We don’t care about who else the GFA is owing as claimed by the FA President.
He continued:”We have written to the GFA on the coach’s unpaid salaries but they are yet to reply us.
He also disclosed that the lawyers of the former Ghana international will send a third letter to the Ghana FA after which they will know the next decision to take.
“We will write to them for the third time to remind them ,if they don’t get back to us , we shall take the next step.
“We knew some expatriate coaches who refused to leave the country until the GFA had paid them their owed salaries.They stayed in hotels and incurred huge sums of debts on the neck of the GFA until they were paid,” he added.
The Ghana Football Association decided not to renew Appiah’s contract after it expired December last year.
But his salaries from August to the December were unpaid.
