Sports Minister, Mallam Yusif Ali Isah, who was said to have resigned from his post yesterday has denied, in a radio interview, ever submitting a resignation letter to the President .... details later
How a Minister lost 322 million cedis - 12.03.2001
The Dispatch says Mallam Yusif Isa, the Minister for Youth and Sports, is in a fix but asks whether his situation has any bearing on a betrayal from within his Ministry? Over $45,000, about 322 million cedis, which would have been paid as winning bonuses to the Black Stars, had they won in the Sudan two weeks ago, reportedly, got missing from his suitcase which arrived after his arrival in the Sudan but without the money.
Mallam Isa telling his version to the paper said when officials of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) could not get the Stars money before leaving, they asked him to bring it since he was leaving Accra a day later.
He expressed his reservations, “I was reluctant to collect the money because I reminded them that when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power, we criticized Mr. E.T. Mensah that he was doing the jobs of other people”.
The Minister said he delayed for another day, just to collect the Black Stars’ bonuses. He said he then put the money in his suitcase, which he sent to the airport, with another box of kit for the Stars. On arrival in Sudan, only the kit box arrived but his suitcase was nowhere to be found.
The Minister in his narration named Mr Kojo Bonsu, who is gunning for the Ghana Football Association’s chairmanship job, as having expressed his willingness to undertake the trip with him, including purchasing at his own expense, two different tickets linking him to Sudan.
Bonsu, according the Sports Minister, came to him 30 minutes before their departure from Sudan that he saw the suitcase on the conveyor belt at the airport.
“When we opened the suitcase, some of my clothes and the monies, in a brown envelope were missing,” he said.
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How a Minister lost 322 million cedis - 12.03.2001
The Dispatch says Mallam Yusif Isa, the Minister for Youth and Sports, is in a fix but asks whether his situation has any bearing on a betrayal from within his Ministry? Over $45,000, about 322 million cedis, which would have been paid as winning bonuses to the Black Stars, had they won in the Sudan two weeks ago, reportedly, got missing from his suitcase which arrived after his arrival in the Sudan but without the money.
Mallam Isa telling his version to the paper said when officials of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) could not get the Stars money before leaving, they asked him to bring it since he was leaving Accra a day later.
He expressed his reservations, “I was reluctant to collect the money because I reminded them that when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power, we criticized Mr. E.T. Mensah that he was doing the jobs of other people”.
The Minister said he delayed for another day, just to collect the Black Stars’ bonuses. He said he then put the money in his suitcase, which he sent to the airport, with another box of kit for the Stars. On arrival in Sudan, only the kit box arrived but his suitcase was nowhere to be found.
The Minister in his narration named Mr Kojo Bonsu, who is gunning for the Ghana Football Association’s chairmanship job, as having expressed his willingness to undertake the trip with him, including purchasing at his own expense, two different tickets linking him to Sudan.
Bonsu, according the Sports Minister, came to him 30 minutes before their departure from Sudan that he saw the suitcase on the conveyor belt at the airport.
“When we opened the suitcase, some of my clothes and the monies, in a brown envelope were missing,” he said.
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