Govt's white paper on World Cup report "useless" - Former Interior minister

A former Deputy Minister for Interior, Nana Obiri Boahen has described government’s white paper on the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the participation of the Black Stars team in the World Cup Tournament in Brazil, 2014 as “bogus, useless, fraudulent and unacceptable”.

Lawyer Obiri Boahen told Atinka FM Friday that the white paper is only good enough to wrap loaf buff.

He said the move was a diversionary tactics on the part of government to distract the attention of Ghanaians from the recent fire, flood disaster, which claimed over 200 lives and the mismanagement of the economy.

Government statement released by the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, on the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the participation of the Black Stars team in Brazil 2014 accepted some of the recommendations and rejected many, raising eyebrows. Read more

Lawyer Obiri Boahen said government “cannot fool Ghanaians like that” because the white paper is just unacceptable.

The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) called on Ghanaians not to discuss the white paper because it has nothing to offer the country, adding that the citizens should rather concentrate on the fire and flood victims, energy crisis, corruption and mismanagement of the economy

He warned that soon, some government officials will run away from the country and leave their wives and children behind due to the nature of corruption in the country.