Chief Justice Denies Association With Kotoko

Acting Chief Justice E. K. Wiredu has denied any involvement in the Charles Taylor yellow card affair pending before the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

Reacting to Chronicle's publication about Referee Walker Essel's testimony, Justice Wiredu expressed surprise about the use of his name by one Mohammed Haruna, a top management member of Kotoko to threaten somebody as testified by the Tamale-based class one referee."

"His Lordship is surprise and amazed at the allegations raised in the publication since he is neither a supporter nor a patron of any club," the statement signed by Mr. N. C. A. Agbevor, Deputy Judicial Secretary stated.

The statement which was copied to the Ghairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the GFA, stated categorically that Justice Wiredu does not even know Haruna, who is said to be a top management member of Kotoko," pointed out the statement.

It would be recalled that at a GFA Disciplinary Committee sitting last Thursday, October 11, Tamale-based Class One Referee Essel, who handled the Hearts and Goldfields match made startling revelations among which he accused Haruna of using both President Kufuor and Chief Justice Wiredu's names to threaten him to testify for Kotoko.