The board members of the Ghana Football Association will constitute an emergency meeting on Wednesday to decide the fate of Ghana football after the offices of the FA were ransacked Tuesday by operatives of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), formerly the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The EOCO says it secured a court warrant, via an ex-parte motion to "search and seize" at the FA offices following the alleged failure or refusal of the GFA to submit documents the EOCO said it needed for an investigation. The security operatives took away nine Central Processing Units (CPUs), files and other documents belonging to the FA. Upon their entry, the operatives allegedly seized mobile phones of staff of the GFA and barred them from exiting the premises. No one was also allowed to enter the offices during the operation to seize the computers and documents. The action typifies growing mistrust and suspicion between the Economic and Organised Crime Unit and the Ghana Football Association. Sources close to the EOCO said before Tuesday's action, it had requested the FA to submit accounts of the GLO sponsorship deal which became an object of controversy for weeks in the recent past. But the FA maintained that the statutory body had no locus to demand an audit from the FA and proceeded to court. The EOCO will not speak publicly on the seizure of the FA’s CPUs except to say they are investigating the sponsorship amounts given the GFA by corporate institutions for the 2010 World Cup. Speaking to Myjoyonline.com, spokesperson of the Football Association, Randy Abbey said the action will impede the operations of the FA. “They took the CPUs of almost all the offices; so the GFA cannot work; nobody can work. We cannot do the registration for players. In fact no work can go on,” he said. He said the FA has a board meeting on Wednesday and will take a decision on the next line of action. He hinted the FA might not be using the CPUs if and when they are returned by the EOCO. “As we speak now the FA secretariat is not functional. That’s the fact. If it continues for quite some time, it is another matter. As to whether the FA will even be comfortable with working with those machines when they are returned is another matter,” he said. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana