“Kurt Okraku’s administration is not doing well and that is the truth” – Kwesi Nyantakyi

Kwasi Nyantakyi was the president of the Ghana Football Association from 2005 to 2018. Nyantakyi spent a whooping 13 years as the boss of Ghana’s Football, culminating in the total transformation of the respective Ghana national teams, especially the Black Stars and the Black Satellites.

Until Anas Aremeyaw released a video where Nyantakyi was spotted taking a bribe and claiming to have the ability to ‘take over the whole nation’ he was one of the most famous football personalities in the country, in the West African Region on the continent and the whole wide world as he was Member of the FIFA Council and FIFA Association Committees.

Kwesi Nyantakyi was subsequently suspended by FIFA and relinquished his role.

Kurt Okraku replaced him in 2019 after the normalisation committee had handled Ghana’s football for a year.

Dubbed the ‘Game Changer’, Kurt Okraku has disastrously failed to take the country’s football to the level it was before Nyantakyi was ousted.

The ex-GFA guru was interviewed on Lawson FM/TV in Kumasi on Thursday, and he expressed his disappointment in the total decline of Ghana’s football.

Nyantakyi said, “Football is like pregnancy and we can all see that all is not well with our game. Kurt Okraku’s administration is not doing well and that is the truth. I don’t know what is wrong but we can all see that all is not well.

Ghana’s football is full of confusion as people are struggling to understand what exactly the problem is. Ghana failed to qualify for the 2025 AFCON and it is the first time the country has failed to qualify for the respectable competition since 2004.

The unbelievable part was that Ghana in Group F did not win a single game against any of Angola, Sudan and Niger and also finished bottom of the group.

“I don’t have much information about what is happening, but in five years, the current GFA has appointed five coaches, which is not a good sign of a performing administration, and that is not good enough,gh and all these changes have not helped,” Kwesi Nyantakyi said.

Appointing and firing coaches have become something so normal with the current administration as five appointments have been made and four departures have been recorded in the last five years.

CK Akunnor, Milovan Rajevach, Otto Addo, Chris Houghton, and Otto Addo have been appointed in that order, but almost all have not survived.

Ghana’s failure to make it to Morocco sums up how haggard the country has been in terms of football. Kwesi Nyatakyi’s administration was marred by corruption but this administration is beyond description due to zero accountability.

Truth be told, Kurt Okraku’s administration is not doing well as Kwesi Nyantakyi, former WAFU president, rightly said.