Sports Editor Of Joy FM Sacked Over Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

Information reaching NEWS-ONE says that Ernest Koranteng, sports editor of Joy FM, an Accra-based private radio station, has been fired by the management of Multimedia Group Ltd after investigations showed he had kept to himself a bigger portion of charity funds raised to support former Black Stars Coach Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, who is currently suffering from ill health.

Mr. Koranteng, according to reports, was served his dismissal letter on Monday, October 1 and it was to take immediate effect.

He had earlier on served a two-week suspension over the same issue, after which the station asked him to return the money he kept to himself.

It is however not certain if he had returned the charity money to the good old coach.

Reports said Mr. Koranteng’s colleagues were divided over the immediate termination of his appointment and that while some were of the view he should have been pardoned, others insisted it was a criminal matter for which the station should have handed him over to the police.

A copy of the memo that axed the sports editor, sighted by NEWS-ONE, read: “The appointment of the head of joy sports, Mr. Ernest Koranteng has been terminated due to dishonesty on his part.”

It was sent by the corporate office to all staff and affiliates and copied to the Chief Executive, Kwasi Twum.

NEWS-ONE recently reported that a very well-known Ghanaian broadcast journalist was under investigation over reports that he kept to himself a bigger portion of charity funds raised to support former Black Stars Coach Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio.

The story said that the journalist, acting head of sports of an English-speaking private radio station in Accra, was the main suspect and on suspension from work. He was said to have given Mr. Attuquayefio a paltry amount of GH¢5,000, although several well-meaning Ghanaians had donated generously to support the celebrated former coach.

Some of the donations had come from society big names including Black Stars player Asamoah Gyan who donated an amount of $3,000, Businessman Kennedy Agyepong aka Cappuccino who reportedly doled out an amount of GH¢3,000 and Executive Committee Member of the Ghana Football Association Randy Abbey who donated an amount of $1,000 .

Meanwhile, reports said the June 29 charity football match for Sir Attuquayefio was well-patronized and a lot of money was generated from the gate proceeds but the good old coach was apparently used as a fund-raising effigy to line the purse of others.

Aside working for the super hits radio station that prides itself in having a discerning audience, the journalist was also a regular face on a sports programme on a private TV station in Accra.