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Ebo Quansah promises to transform GFA secretariat

Thu, 2 Aug 2001 Source: GNA

Mr Ebo Quansah, one of the candidates eying the post of the General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) says he would transform the secretariat into an honest haven where things would be done openly to attract public scrutiny and criticism in order to improve upon the status quo.

"There will be no need to hide anything from the public and the media because I will offer the kind of leadership that will eschew corruption and emphasise prudent management of resources to the advantage of development."

He told the GNA Sports on Wednesday that he would ensure that all staff of the GFA, change their attitude to work and deliver their optimum to satisfy soccer loving Ghanaians with good managerial results, which would rub off on the national teams.

Mr Quansah said one of his key objectives would be the establishment of strong data and information technology bases that would enable the technical personnel to have updates on our foreign based players so that only in-form players would be called up for national assignments.

"The GFA must have a website to provide information on our players and the activities of the association and by so doing, we shall save a lot of foreign currency by inviting only players whose current forms would manifest in positive results for the national teams."

The GFA General Secretaryship aspirant said he would work hard to rip the secretariat off the apron strings of the Ministry of Youth and Sports by generating enough money to foot all bills of the Black Stars.

"It is unfortunate that the GFA approaches the ministry for funding any time there is an assignment. Through prudent management and an aggressive marketing strategy, we should generate enough funds to cater for those things."

Mr Quansah said he would initiate a forum to meet the media every month and discuss the activities of the GFA while picking suggestions which would be considered and if found appropriate, implemented to derive good results.

He said he would not be cowed by the ministry, as the former general secretary was because he would deliberate extensively on issues before taking decisions and the ministry "would have no chance to dictate to us as Mr E.T Mensah did in the Dossena case."

Mr Quansah was apparently referring to the campaign mounted by the former minister to sack Guisseppe Dossena, the former national coach.

Source: GNA