Unsanctioned GRFU Congress: An Inside Story

Our investigations have uncovered the following facts surrounding the matter.That there is a system within Ghana and Rugby Africa for holding an AGM.

In the case of FIFA or Rugby Africa, they insist, that the media be present to cover the event, not small media, the major media, so that, it is witnessed by all.It is understood that the process is not by people just appearing to be on the ballot box, but there is an observable and transparent process.In the case of Ghana Rugby, our investigations show there are supposed to be ten teams playing in the national league.

Clearly this was a sham.This process is what any observer would have wanted to find out, whether in fact the process to participation was transparent, free and fair in accordance to the international Rugby rules.This media outlet then decided to investigate further to find out if you have your constitution and your ways, is it stronger than that of your parent body, in this case, is Ghana rugby’s structure stronger stronger than that of Africa rugby?

That AGM was disregarded by all parties including Rugby Africa.And these are the people who are behind this event two years later knowing full well that they will not be recognized by the authorities.

Besides Ghana, Morocco as well as Cameroon have also gone through similar situations, some of which have been resolved by rugby Africa in collaboration with their national sports authorities and rugby federations through normalization committees.Morocco has resolved itself through a system that is now being applied to Ghana.

That is Rugby Africa set up a normalization and audit committee which is managed and run by Rugby Africa in collaboration with the local sports authorities.In Ghana, apparently a normalization committee has already been established, with the same gentlemen and part team that resolved the Morocco situation and took them to an AGM to change the statutes, the constitution.

This normalization and audit committee has already started business.Since NSA did not authorize its official to attend the illegal AGM in Ghana, The only question is now whether Samuel Nii Obiri is going to be dismissed because Ghana's sports cannot continue going with these bad actors, destroying the way forward for the rest of sports in Ghana.We understand when we look at what happened in Morocco and other countries, that the next step after this will be for the establishment of an Iterim Management Committee (IMC) to manage Ghana rugby until such a time when that normalization committee complete its work.