Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw, has apologized for any damage his Number 12 exposé may have caused to football tournaments and activities in the country.
Speaking in a TV3 exclusive interview on Wednesday, June 27, Anas said he only set out to ensure that football affairs were run in the country devoid of back kicks, bribery, among other things.
However, Anas’ investigative documentary premiered on June 6 in Accra that exposed deep seated corruption in the football circle has caused the U-17 women team to stop training ahead of the 2018 U-17 Women’s World Cup.
Former Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantaky, football administrators and scores of referees among others were captured on the receiving monies to allegedly compromise his position.
Mr. Nyantakyi was consequently given a 90-day ban by FIFA forcing him to resign
“To be honest, I am just learning for the first time that this one has stopped the under 17 women; I did not know. I do not follow football… if I have hurt the feelings of these people, I can only say I apologise,” he said in the one-on-one interview with TV’s Michael Oti Adjei.
Anas said he had no idea his work, the #Number12, will lead to a halt in football activities, adding he had no intention of disrupting football activities in Ghana.
Ghana’s Football Association is currently being dissolved by the government; an action many fear could result in the world football governing body FIFA banning Ghana from participating in its activities.
“I went into this story looking for good and quality football for Ghana, I think we are better than what we are displaying and I think that part of it is as a result of bad leadership, bad referees, and bad Ghana sports authorities that is why my investigation looked all these areas.
“I know that some of them will not be happy, but my intention was not to grind everything to a halt. My intention was for us to do retrospection into seeing where things have gone haywire and to find lasting solutions so that in five or six years to come, we will have a formidable national football team,” he clarified.
He expressed shock over what he described as a subculture among referees where they allow themselves to be bribed to fix matches in favour of the highest bidder.
“I got the picture that it has been a subculture for a long time, and it has devastating effects. What shocked me the most was the capacity to buy a yellow and red card, I did not know those things were affordable, the rot was so deep.”
According to Anas, a lot of Ghanaians invest their emotions into the game of football and do not deserve to be shortchanged by referees and football authorities.
Source: 3news.com
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Non of us is against you but your method is very bad, are you telling us that you don't think before you act? Look at the mess you cause Ghana MAY 9th through your bribery test. Kotoko or Hearts did not bribe the referees is you who did, forgotten/didn't think of what your test may cause. how did you feel after your test made the referee did bayas for people lost their lives?
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So you have no idea the consequence of your actions? All you are interested in is putting those videos on display for the funfair of it. Do you have any idea of how you a making the African continent and Ghana in particular a mockery in the eyes of the international community? Undercover journalism is as old as anything, and it has been going on for years in Developing countries. Yet they hand them over straight to the Law enforcement Agencies to prosecute the case, not mounting a village free show. So they will be judged by public opinion. In any case those camera pens and watches and all those recording gadgets come from the developed countries and they are for undercover work. They don't send it to GTV or BBC or CNN. Africans will always define themselves as having peculiar problems and will like to use a brute approach and when you refer them to their way of doing things and backward, they cry foul.
Why do you still cover your face?? Your cover is blown and Kwaku Baaku, your master, has admitted in a TV interview that you are indeed the one in the video shown by Ken. He called it "pre-trial conference". He had earlier on lied that the pictures Ken put out there he could not identified you and that they are bogus. Now he go talk true. EEE BOBO BA!!!!
Thank you Anas. We are strongly backing you to expose more corruption. And the block-heads below who don't understand his apology. Keep supporting corruption, he will be coming for you next time, if you don't change your ways... hahahahahaaa.
No APOLOGIES, Anas! You have done wonderfully for us and Ghana's football. It will be BETTER after this!
I wonder whether some people commenting here really understand the context of the supposed "apology". Anas is not apologizing for his investigative work. He, rather, feels saddened that events will be possibly be disrupted. It is like a doctor apologizing to a patient for the pain an injection will cause but not for injecting the patient for the sake of the paitent's own health. Do people understand the language Anas used at all?
After damaging people's life ANAS finally Apologises . GOD PUNISH YOU and the professor to the end. the people who paid you to investigate me. The one you stood beside at AShiaman
U see how some Ghanaians are if u have paid to watch a football match only to realize that it was a fixed match like u guys will understand Anas bro am in full support of u we are what we are because of our selfish attitude as a people. Anas defend the less previlage and expose the bad things in our society
What about the harm you course against Kotoko?