Erstwhile Ghana FA President, Kwesi Nyantakyi has shockingly revealed that some insiders at the football association paid investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $400,000 to set him up.
Speaking for the first time after the Number 12 exposé, the former Caf 1st Vice president told Net 2 Television Thursday that the work was sponsored by detractors within.
“People at the GFA who didn’t like me paid $400,000 for Anas to do that [investigative work],” Nyantakyi claimed.
He had moments before, claimed that the investigative journalist demanded money from him prior to the premiere of the investigative piece.
“Oh yes, I said it in my earlier statement [in the aftermath of the exposé]. They asked a lawyer who teaches in Legon [University of Ghana]; he [Anas] knows him, he is his friend.
“He [the lawyer] contacted me and asked me to pay $150,000 and I said I didn’t have the money and that’s why all this hullaballoo came about,” Nyantakyi said.
“Contrived Scheme, criminal organization”
To Nyantakyi, Anas’ pattern of work is unnatural and indicated lodging a complaint in the UAE where he was recorded in the investigative piece about a breach of his privacy while in that country whose laws frown on such conducts.
“Anas claimed they took three months to plan my setup so when you look at it, the whole thing is a contrived scheme. A setup to disgrace me or their target…
“In the UAE, it is illegal to record somebody without his permission so per the report we have lodged, Anas would have to face those things and answer why…” he stated.
Kwesi Nyantakyi also described the journalist’s business a criminal venture.
“Tiger Eye is a criminal organization. They don’t have the license to do what they are doing. They are just on a wanton breakages or infringes of the law. Just bouncing on people’s rights, recording them here and there and disgracing them here and there without recourse to any opportunity for them to be heard to defend themselves. Because if you even record somebody and you think he has done something wrong, hand him over to the relevant state organization to deal with you but he will do a premiere to disgrace you first. So you are already condemned before you are even heard.”
The former Fifa council member, who is serving a lifetime ban, has since appealed against that decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
By Daniel Osei
