Kofi Owusu Aduonum
27 August 2008
The Zaytuna United FC and Real Tamale United legal tussle, regarding the eligibility of Komi/Kwame Adzagba in their 30th week Onetouch premier league is set to go down to the wire.
Zaytuna, not satisfied with the GFA Disciplinary Committee's ruling on the said case filed a protest against RTU but their plea for fairness had fallen on the deaf ears of the FA's Disciplinary Committee, and declared Zaytuna losers in the said case.
But The Chronicle Sports investigations have revealed that the case is far from over and that it will be stretched to its elastic limit, should they be denied justice in their subsequent appeals.
Muddying the waters further, the Disciplinary Committee's vice chairman, Kwame Takyi signed the Disciplinary Committee report on August 14, a day before the hearing, which he failed to turn up.
The question that is therefore crying for definite answers from the camp of Zaytuna, is how come Kwame Takyi signed the report before the hearing which was adjourned to the following day? According to Zaytuna, they appeared the following day as instructed and after the hearing, he (Takyi) asked them to re appear on August 18, Monday, only to realise that the report was signed before the hearing.
Further probe into the matter revealed that the NPP government since assuming office in 2000 till date, naturalised only 36 foreigners on February 9, 2007, and if that is anything to go by then Adzagba's name should have been one of the 36 foreigners, which is not the case (Names published in the Daily Graphic February 10, 2007).
What is more, the player has failed to produce copies of the certificate of naturalization as citizen of Ghana as well as the oath of allegiance supporting Zaytuna's claim for the player's illegibility.
Zaytuna's beef stems from the fact that they have every document supporting their argument for the unqualified player's (Komi/Kwame Adzagba) ineligibility.
The player at the centre of controversy, Adzagba, a Togolese national, whose acquisition of a fake Voters Ghanaian National ID and other documents by fictitious means, questions the player's integrity regarding documentations.
For instance, on the player's national ID card, it has Abdul Aziz Kwame Adzagba, born on August 9, 1979, in Accra.
The FA's Disciplinary Committee held that the player possessed a valid Ghanaian passport which suggests that he was a Ghanaian and did not require an ITC, however, documentary evidence in the custody of The Chronicle Sports' shows that the player is a Togolese.
Adzagba's Togolese birth certificate states that he was born at Kpalime, Togo, on December 31, 1974, but has a different date of birth- September 9, 1979, in his Ghanaian passport.
Revelations from the camp of Zaytuna indicate that the player used clandestine means to secure two different Ghanaian passports with the aide of officials from GHALCA and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports(MOESS).
There are also documents to show that a PRO at the Ministry, name withheld, wrote a request letter to the Director of Passport, introducing Adzagba as a member of the Black Stars on October 14, 2002, who needed a passport to travel with the team to Sierra Leone for a national assignment. The player is, however, neither a member of the Black Stars nor was he part of the team that played the Lone Stars in Freetown.
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