The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has been advised to make good offers to the lawyers they appoint to the Disciplinary and Appeals Committees to get value for money in the dispensation of legal issues in football.
According to Kwabena Osei Sarfo, the GFA's over-reliance on lawyers serving on its two legal adjudicating bodies for mere allowances, have impeded the efficent and effective system.
Last Friday, Alhaji Karim Gruzah, the president of King Faisal Football Club, succeeded in placing an injunction on the Ordinary Congress of the GFA, claiming an appeal that his club had made over a disciplinary ruling had not been heard.
According to Lawyer Sarfo, this latest action from Alhaji Gruzah was only a reflection of the non-commitment of the association’s legal committee.
"The way the Disciplinary and the Appeals Committees work for the FA is not the best and perhaps, it is because they are only on allowances and not being paid.
"The GFA needs to get good lawyers on its payroll to sit on these committees and then it will be obliged to have an expedited work done.
"Just last week, almost three months after the Premier League had ended, the Disciplinary Committee gave its ruling on a case involving Accra Hearts of Oak against New Edubiase. How can that be said to be effective work? Compare that to what pertains in the English Premier League and you would understand the essence of recruiting committed lawyers," Mr Sarfo contended.
Mr Sarfo's assertion was supported by the Chairman of the Premier League Board, Mr Yaw Abra-Appiah, who admitted that the slow work of the two adjudicating committees was hampering the work of the Board, as well as football in the country.
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