The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Joseph Yamin, is calling for the dismissal of Youth and Sports Minister, Akua Sena Dansua, for her poor organization of Ghanaian soccer fans to the just ended World Cup in South Africa. This comes just a day after the pro-NDC Palava newspaper published a story about a possible cabinet reshuffle by President Mills that may see the minister dropped. Joseph Yamin told Luv FM in Kumasi that the Minister woefully failed to execute the President's assignment to organise the trip. “Ghanaians were stranded in Ghana before the journey to South Africa, we were stranded in South Africa and when we got to our base, we were still stranded in terms of ticketing. When we were coming we faced the same [predicament] before coming to Ghana,” he stated. He believes that Sena Dansua must be punished to placate the soccer fans whom he said suffered tremendous pain and stress in their effort to go to South Africa to cheer on the Black Stars. But the minister says the allegations are baseless and must be dismissed with contempt. She said Joseph Yamin was one of a number of people who praised her in South Africa for the efficient manner in which she handled the trip and wondered why the party secretary will make such a sudden u-turn. The Sports Minister who is also the Member of Parliament for North Deyi said she was not surprised by the call because there had been a sustained, orchestrated attempt to hound her out of office. She told Joy News that she stepped on a lot of toes when she truncated some fraudulent activities by certain persons in South Africa. “The campaign [against me] started in Accra. I have heard one of the people involved [in the nefarious activities I stopped] was in Kumasi last week, he didn’t make himself visible but people saw him in certain places holding meetings with people ostensibly to do this to me,” she noted. Story by Malik Abass Daabu/Joy News/Ghana