Samir Captan is not GBA President -Otoo

Matchmaker Solomon Otoo Lartey is crying wolf that Ghana

Boxing Authority (GBA) boss Samir Captan is apparently still in office calling himself


President of the nation’s boxing governing body.


Reacting to a purported letter from the GBA to various associations


under the body including the United Boxing Coaches Association of Ghana signed


by Mr. Captan, Mr. Otoo Lartey described it as out of order and is calling on


the National Sports Authority to call Samir Captan to order and restrain him


from calling himself GBA President.


“The politicians he (Mr. Captan) is following in


Odododiodoo, he should ask them what is the meaning of President. Before you


become a president you have to be elected. Formerly, J.J. Rawlings was the

Chairman of PNDC before he was elected as president through NDC,” Solomon Otoo


explains.


He added: “I don’t blame him, it’s lawyer Felix Quartey I


blame because he has to tell them about the law. He knows that the law has


changed and it’s LI – 1988 which is working now so their administration is


unrecognized.”


The Ghanaian boxing administration have come under intense


pressure to assimilate themselves unto the New Sports Regulations LI – 1988,


which prescribes the formation, organization, administration and elections of


officials of sports association to rest in the hands of people interested in

that particular sport (stakeholders).


A stakeholder pressure group, the Committee for Boxing


Stakeholders (CPBS), have called for Mr. Captan who is in office by government


appointment, the two year tenure having expired in June last year, to vacate


office for the boxing fraternity to go to Congress to elect their executives. A


stand that has received the backing of the National Sports Authority (NSA) who


have since ordered the GBA to go to congress to elect their officers.


That is why the GBA have notified the various stakeholders


to elect their executives by August 31 so the process for congress and election


of executives for the boxing governing body could be executed thereafter.

“His tenure of office expired last year and he was only by


appointment. He’s only a chairman, not president, who elected him to call


himself president? Presidents are people who are elected. He can’t address himself


as president, he can’t. If you hang unto power like Muammar Ghadafi, you will


die,” United Boxing Coaches Association President Godwin Dzanie Kotey AKA


Alloway has also said.


Abdul Rashid Williams, Secretary of the United Boxing


Coaches Association also adds his beef on GBA Communications Director Mohammed


Amin Lamptey. “Amin Lamptey is the one bringing problems in Ghana boxing and


Mr. Samir Captan should bring Amin Lamptey to order because he goes on air to

attack coaches without any cause. What is wrong with coaches calling for


congress when Mr. Captan has also been part of the call for congress long


before he became the GBA Chairman? Instead of Amin Lamptey to know that the new


LI allows congress to come on, he goes on air and just tries to defend the


indefensible.”Credit:


CPBS