The chairman of the Ghana League Clubs Association, Kudjoe Fianoo has angrily reacted to the implementation of e-ticketing for GPL games without having an engagement with the clubs.
Although the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia engaged the National Sports Authority (NSA) to digitalize tickets for football games in the country but the GHALCA chairman and Executive Director of Great Olympics, Kudjoe Fianoo has reportedly denied engagement with the clubs before the commencement selling tickets online.
The government had claimed that this is part of the country’s digitalization agenda to ensure the easy accessibility of products and services but the Ghanaian football-loving fans are struggling to understand its use of it.
Speaking to Dan Kwaku Yeboah on Peace FM, Kudjoe Fianoo angrily reacted to the implementation of the e-ticketing without engaging the clubs, stating no one called the clubs before it was commenced.
“As far back as 2014, I had the opportunity to be at FIFA congress and from there I watched the opening game between Brazil and Croatia. There was no ticket at the stadium but it was downloaded on the phone so when you get there you just put it on the sensor for the door to open. It’s nice but we are talking about World Cup.
“When I became the GHALCA chairman, we used e-ticketing for a President’s Cup and I was able to be at the office and check the number of spectators who grabbed the tickets for every corner at the stadium. It is very beautiful but it was GHALCA.
“We are not against the e-ticketing but the imposition without educating the stakeholders is not good. Clubs are limited liability companies so there should be an engagement before they take such a decision that will cover us all.
“Before the implementation of e-Levy, there’s been an engagement but the government will not force me to choose the network I want (whether MTN or Vodafone). As a limited liability company, if there is an implementation of e-ticketing, maybe a club like Olympics is having a director who is already in that business but who is prepared to do it for them for free. Why do you impose something like that whiles we don’t know the company?
“We don’t know who brought the company for e-ticketing. For Black Stars, we know that it belongs to the government but they don’t finance the clubs. The government is not financing the Olympics. We don’t know the company. I am the director of the Olympics but nobody called us. Am not talking as GHALCA chairman but as director of Great Olympics, nobody called us meanwhile there should be an engagement. That’s how it is supposed to be.
“We are not saying we are against them but there must be an engagement. That’s why I used e-Levy for example. They will say you are using the government’s facility but the players who perform and earns awards to the Jubilee House, does the government spends on them. Where are they going to be developed? Is it not the government’s facilities? So if you are talking about it because we are using Accra Sports Stadium, Baba Yara Sports Stadium, and others, whether you like it or not they will hang it around your neck.
“I admit that sometimes our members should be ‘Aluta’ small.”
“Let’s all agree that we don’t know the company” He ended.
