Governance failure in Ghanaian football and a presidential reform agenda

The White Paper also accepted a reform architecture: a Public Interest Committee with a government-appointed chair sitting between the ministry and the GFA, a separate and publicly accounted bank account for national team sponsorship money, performance contracts for management committees, no more cash lifted to tournaments, and enforcement of the FIFA Standard Cooperation Agreement.

A restructured Executive Council: 12 seats could be split like this: the President, 2 Premier League, 1 Division One, 1 women’s league and 1 regional FA representative, plus 1 player, 1 supporters’ representative and 4 independent directors with defined portfolios in finance, governance, commercial development and safeguarding.

It now has ten directors: an independent non-executive chair, a chief executive, 4 independent non-executive directors (one of them the senior independent director), 2 National Game directors and 2 Professional Game directors.