Tudu Mighty Jets has been cleared to participate in the much delayed division one league at an emergency congress of the Ghana Football Association in Accra on Thursday.
The decision to reinstate the Mighty Jets came as a result of a plea by Justice Ato Ampiah, president of congress to delegates to reverse their last year's resolution in order to pave way for the commencement of this year's league in order "to save our football from total collapse."
He said the reversal of the earlier congress decision to expel Jets should not suggest that the Football Association would no longer pursue the case it sent to the appeals court but rather because it is apparent that the case might likely not be heard this year on accounts of the courts going on vacation soon.
When the issue was submitted to vote, 90 of the delegates voted for Mighty Jets return while only 14 voted against.
Justice Ampiah said they intend to follow through with that case and would apply the appropriate sanctions against the club if the court ruled in their favour and pointed out as things stand now any division one football league without Mighty Jets would be in contempt of the high court's decision.
It would be recalled that a protracted legal wrangling between Tudu Might Jets and GFA has resulted in indefinite suspension of the Division One League (DOL) for about a year now as both parties await the judgment of the Appeals Court, which is handling the case.
The tussle started when the FA suspended Might Jets for three years after the club pulled out of the national middle league assigning financial difficulties for their action.
The GFA refused to accept their grounds for the pull out and went ahead to apply sanctions according to its statutes.
Mighty Jets later protested that a three year ban imposed on them was illegal because it contravened natural justice of not being heard before the sanction was imposed and consequently sought redress in the courts which quashed the FA's sanction.
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