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Mid Sea Company Limited, the company named by the Ghana Football Association to have brokered the Glo sponsorship deal for the Ghana Football Association has denied knowledge of the deal.
A Director of the Estates Construction Company, Professor Marian Ewurama Addy says her outfit has never received money from the Ghana Football Association for any service.
Professor Addy explained that none of the directors of the company knows or has dealt with Renee Williams, the supposed agent who represented the FA and Mid Sea on one hand and the Globacom Ghana on the other.
This latest revelation comes after the GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi insisted at a press conference on Friday, 3rd September that Mid Sea Company Limited secured the Glo sponsorship deal for Ghana’s professional league.
“Following the difficulties we had with the then One Touch (Vodafone Ghana) that was when Mid Sea came in. Mid Sea came in through Afrisat (the TV Production company which was responsible for packaging the local league matches for satellite station GBS)”.
"Renee Williams was the one who got the deal after we had had discussions with him and there were some difficulties with continuing the relationship with Afrisat when GBS had gone under liquidation; and so Mid Sea was brought in as a substitution or replacement company for it.
“But all the negotiations and all the deals including meetings and everything were done between Glo represented by ‘Abi Sheik’ (the marketing manager of Glo) and the agency represented by Renee Williams. Everything was done above board,” Kwesi Nyantakyi had told the press.
However in a sharp rebuttal, Professor Marian Ewurama Addy told Citi FM that none of the directors of the company has dealt with Renee Williams. Neither has the company received money from the GFA for any service.
She added that the Management of the company will release a statement in due time.
The Ghana Football Association announced a five-year sponsorship deal worth $15 million with the new telecommunication company as title sponsor for the premier league in December 2008.
In recent times, the role of supposed 'agents' for the contract has been questioned, first by Abraham Boakye, aka One Man Supporter, who as a Glo Ambassador, is credited with introducing Glo and the GFA to to the sponsorship. He believes no agency role was required to consumate the deal, questioning also why the GFA should be paying a 10 percent agency fee. Other sports administrators have also called for a probe of the deal, while the GFA says the deal was properly brokered and spurns allegations of malfeasance.
Credit: Citifmonline with additions from Myjoyonline.com
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