Ashanti Regional Director of the National Sports Authority, Kwame Baah, has expressed his displeasure at Asante Kotoko FC for leaking a proposal to review user fees for the use of the Baba Yara Stadium.

The NSA sent a proposal to the porcupines on reviewing the user fees for the facility, demanding among other things, an amount of GH₵ 5,000 down payment before every game and a 10% deduction from gate proceeds.

The NSA will also mount pitch panels and advertise their own sponsors on the scoreboard while Kotoko pays all match expenses, including police and refreshments on match days.

In addition, the NSA stated in the proposal that they reserve the right to close the stadium down for all their activities, especially in the month of December.

According to Kwame Baah, the NSA has finalised a similar deal with Hearts of Oak and some other clubs that use the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Regional NSA boss says their doors are open and urged Kotoko to come for a meeting if they have any reservations about the proposal instead of running to the media.

“I want to urge the management of Asante Kotoko as much as possible to ensure the need to do a roundtable to discuss the proposal. I saw the reportage in the media and I actually did not think it was the best thing to do. Accra Hearts of Oak had completed this agreement several weeks before now but we never heard anything.

“If we had met and never agreed to the proposal and it went out to the media it would have been a different ball game. But as far as I am concerned as I sit here, I have never spoken to any member of Asante Kotoko to formally register their displeasure with the proposal.

“We want to plead with them that our decisions are not that which will cripple them and so our doors are still open and I’m looking forward to engaging them,” he noted.

According to Luv Sports sources, the new proposal for a review of the user fees is not peculiar to only Asante Kotoko but to all clubs that use NSA facilities.