September 6 – FIFA has extended its ban from all football activities on Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi, the second most powerful official in African football, by an additional 45 days.
Nyantakyi was initially suspended for 90 days by FIFA’s Ethics Committee, throwing Ghanaian football into limbo before FIFA sent in one of its trademark normalisation committees to provisionally run the show.
A member of FIFA’s decision-making Council and first vice-president of the Confederation of African football, Nyantakyi now has to wait another six weeks before discovering whether FIFA will take the matter further.
As soon as was suspended after being accused of taking kickbacks Nyantakyi resigned from all his positions. He was filmed apparently receiving $65,000 in cash from an undercover reporter but denies any impropriety.
The revelations formed part of a two-year undercover investigation by a Ghanaian journalist into football in Africa and also revealed footage of over 100 referees and officials allegedly taking cash before games.
Some of the footage was broadcast by the BBC World Service’s investigations programme Africa Eye.
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