Former Sports Minister Nii Lante Vanderpuye has pledged to reform Ghanaian football if given the chance to return to office in 2025.
The Odododiodio MP, in an interview with Joy Sports, expressed his dissatisfaction with the current state of football in the country, highlighting corruption and mismanagement as major issues hampering the sport’s development.
“If I get the opportunity to become Sports Minister in 2025, I will sanitize football,” he said.
He emphasized the need for decisive action, saying, “I am not happy with what is going on. There are so many things wrong with our football and unless we take bold steps to sanitize the system and take decisions that will inure to the benefit of the people who are doing football and the footballers and not business-men, football will not grow.”
Vanderpuye also claimed that corruption in Ghana football has worsened since the era of former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi.
“Anas’ Exposé [Number 12] has helped [football] to some extent; just that now I think that the corruption is even more than in the Nyantakyi era. If I get the opportunity, I will do what I did in 2009 [get EOCO to ransack the GFA secretariat].”