A former chairman of the Ghana Football Association has described the ruling which imposed a GHS 50,000 damages on the Economic and Financial Crimes Office as perverse. Ade Coker believes the ruling may have dire consequences on football administration in the country and would hamper transparency within the Football Association. His comments on Joy FM’s Saturday Sports Link programme come a day after the Human Rights court slapped the damages on the anti-graft agency for exceeding it statutory mandate. Officials of the EOCO with an ex-parte court warrant broke into the offices of the Ghana Football Association in December last year and made away with nine system units, documents and other files belonging to the FA. They suspect the FA had breached financial laws in the country or may have evaded taxes. Their action sparked a huge controversy in the country. The EOCO was hailed and cursed with equal measure by FA officials, government officials, opposition members, football fanatics and journalists. The FA proceeded to the courts to seek remedies against the EOCO for overstepping its bounds and Friday, May 13, 2011, the court upheld its arguments. But Ade Coker disagrees with the Justice Peter Derry's verdict. The former Vice Chairman of the FA and now the Greater Accra Regional chairman of the NDC told panelist on Sports Link the ruling is recipe for chaos in the country. He argued the government spends a lot of money on the FA’s activities, particularly national assignment and must have an unfettered right to audit the accounts of the FA. “The government is virtually spending money on the national teams. The teams belong to all of us and if the president in the country, our investigative institution or the government cannot probe institutions because they are perceived to be autonomous, then there will be no governance in the country. Then there will be chaos all over,” he said. He argued further that teams which even claim to be using their private funds [ie. Ashantigold ]to sponsor their individual clubs depend on sometimes gold for which the Ghanaians have a right to because they own the gold. Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interview Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana