President of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), Ben Nunoo Mensah has expressed his disappointment in the dispute on the allocation of the earnings of the World cup in Brazil.

 The Ghana FA is expected to cash in an amount of $8million as proceeds by next week as FIFA begins the distribution of its cash price to the 32 countries that participated in the Mundial which ended in July.

 Nunoo Mensah has condemned calls by some members of the Ghana FA clamoring for the money to be solely invested in football related activities.

Speaking on Asempa fm’s Ultimate sports show, he said about 99% of the nations sports budget is channeled to football at the detriment of other sports and therefore returns yielded must be shared equally amongst the least financed sports.

“I think the people involved in football in this country are getting everything wrong concerning sports in Ghana. What they need to understand is, football has developed because the least financed sports have been forgone. What would have happened if we all had demanded for our share of the sports budget. Do they think government would have gotten money for them to play their qualifiers and get the World Cup.

“Ask the ministry if a penny has been given to me (weightlifting) since I took over as president of the Federation. Meanwhile, we are able to compete in international competitions and win medals for Ghana from individual pockets but when these football people go to competitions, apart from the per diems they also get winning bonuses including the managers,  that is not the case in ours.

The money is not football money that is what they should understand. It is government money.” He added.

The Ghana FA is however expected to pay back to government chest half of the amount which was transported to pre finance the appearance fees and bonuses of the entire Black Stars contingent to Brazil.

The Ghana FA in recent times has been deliberating on plans to judiciously use the remaining $4million to develop football in the country.