For the first time ever, I felt scandalised upon hearing on Joy FM's News Night on Monday that the Ghana Football Association had directed 'returnee players' of the senior national team - Andre and Jordan Ayew (Marseilles) as well as Kevin Prince Boateng (AC Milan) - to write to the GFA to officially communicate their return. The GFA's reason, according to FA Spokesperson Sanni Diarra, the three needed to officially communicate their return to the body that they are available for national duties before the coach could consider whether they can be part of his selection for future games. The second reason Sanni gave was that, the FA can only inform the clubs of these players of their return for national assignments if it received the letters from these players. He claimed the aforementioned players officially wrote to the FA to announce their decision not to play for the Black Stars and must do same on their return. What Mr. Diarra fell short of telling Ghanaians; perhaps the interviewer failed to ask him is, did the FA officially inform the clubs the players play for, when they announced their temporary retirements? On 17th June, 2013, the Daily Graphic - a national newspaper - published an article under the title "GFA explains Kevin’s late return" and was widely circulated in the electronic media. According to the report, FA President "Kwesi Nyantakyi has confirmed that returnee Kevin-Prince Boateng officially notified the FA and Black Stars coach Kwasi Appiah about his intention to return to the national team after nearly three years of self-imposed exile". The story continued: " In an interview on the Soccer Africa show on South African Pay-TV, SuperSport, Mr Nyantakyi said that but for a toe injury the AC Milan midfielder could have been available for Ghana’s World Cup qualifiers against The Sudan last week and yesterday’s qualifier against Lesotho in Maseru. “Kevin-Prince Boateng had confirmed to the coach and my good self that he was coming back to play,” the FA boss said last Thursday. “Let me confirm that before Kwasi Appiah selected his team for The Sudan game, Kevin had told the coach and myself that he was available for that game. Unfortunately, a week before that game, he picked up an injury during training with AC Milan but he told us that he would participate in the team's games in June,” Nyantakyi stressed. Indeed, I do not know much about the Ayews but I remember they, out of respect for the first gentleman on the land - President John Dramani Mahama - whom they had met for talks over their 'strike', announced to the world that they have rescinded their decision not to play for Ghana. I hope the Daily Graphic did not misrepresent Mr. Nyantakyi in the above report attributed to him. I'm sure you would know by now the point I am arriving at. What form of "official" communication did Nyantakyi receive from Boateng? How did this communication get to Coach Kwasi Appiah? Did the FA Boss tell Ghanaians and for that matter the whole world a fabrication over the Prince Boateng return or perhaps he could not control his over-excitement at the 'news' of Prince Boateng's return? So who should the world believe; Sanni or Nyantakyi? In today's world when everyone including the teams the play for, know the circumstances under which the players called it quit, plus the many efforts made by many prominent people including the country's president and the FA Boss himself, what could the FA lose if it goes ahead to communicate officially to those clubs that they are back for national duties? The GFA capos should bear in mind that they are managing Ghana football and not Gala football where anybody could just jump in and say anything he likes, depending on how well or bad they slept the previous night. My plea to the Ghana (not Gala) Football Association is that, they should streamline their communication channels and not create further problems in our football as far as the national team is concerned. Please Mr. Nyantakyi, spend that 20 minutes to compose and send that letter to Marseilles and AC Milan. Thank you.