The Ghana Football Association has begun an appeal with CAF following the disqualification of the Black Starlets following protest by Cameroon The Ghana Football Association has filed an appeal with the CAF Appeals Committee over the decision of the CAF U-17 Organizing Committee to disqualify the national U-17 team of Ghana, the Black Starlets from the 2015 U-17 Championship. The football governing body of Ghana is
dissatisfied with the decision of the CAF U-17.Organising Committee ban Ghana. Cameroon launched a protest against seven players of the Black Starlets after losing 2-1
to Ghana in the first leg match of the third round of the U-17 Championship qualifiers. CAF Medical Committee made adverse findings against two players with subsequent tests [in the presence of CAF Medical Committee
member] in Ghana using the F-Marc procedure for age determination. CAF later wrote to GFA claiming the analysis of the MRI report from the Medical Centre in Ghana contradict the analysis of the CAF experts despite Radiologist Consultant who carried out both the initial MRI tests and
rescanning confirming the player under review is within the age limit.
Sunday, 26 October 2014
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Gov’t has no business managing pension funds – Lawyer. Update: 26 - Oct - 2014.
A private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong, has supported calls for government to hand over the management of the second tier pension scheme of public sector workers to a private body. Funds deducted since the introduction of the scheme is being held in trust by government but Mr. Oppong believes the various labour groups should be given the opportunity to
appoint their own trustee since the scheme is funded by them. “In my view since the Act says that it is
privately funded and managed, and it comes from occupation or it is occupational- related, then the persons whose monies or whose
properties are the subject of these particular instruments of trust, must be the ones who should appoint their own trustee because the basic principle of trust is that, the basic owner of the property is the one who will choose his
own trustee. "…These monies belong to the workers, so it is
the worker or the person whose monies have been deducted who should have the right to appoint his own trustee,” the legal practitioner said. “The question to ask is that who owns the property? The property which is the subject
matter of the second tier. Who does it belong to. As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t belong to the government or any employer,” he added. About 12 labour unions embarked on an indefinite strike on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 to protest government’s failure to pay their tier two pension funds into a privately managed account.
Government has threatened to challenge the position of the labour groups. But speaking on
Citi FM’s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue, Mr. Oppong clarified that government cannot sanction the unions since their decision to protest is legitimate. Meanwhile government has resorted to the
court to seek interpretation of the Pension Act. Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations,
Haruna Iddrisu said: “Government intends through the Attorney General to proceed to court to seek a proper interpretation on aspects of provisions of the pensions Act and some clarifications on the second tier pension scheme and the role of employer and employee in the management of the fund”.