Popular boxing promoter Michael Nii Yarboi Annan has descended heavily on the Roger Barnor-led administration, saying they ignored his advice.
He, therefore, says he has not empathies for what has befallen Ghana boxing under Barnor’s administration and he deserves it.
Don, as he is popularly known, said he had noticed some administrative lapses during the tenures of Peter Zwennes and Abraham Kotei Neequaye and raised concerns.
After Mr Kotei Neequaye resigned as the President of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), Don insists, he called Roger Barnor, who assumed the role of Acting President, to advise him.
“In the past, during Peter Zwennes’ time, it is the NSA that gave the GBA a Secretary General. . .Kotei’s time they refused to appoint or even make sure we have amended whatever there is to be amended to elect our own Secretary General,” he said in an interview on Game TV.
“So Kotei was handling issues as if he was the General Secretary as well as the President. After Kotei left office, my own friend Roger, I called him and I advised him [but] he did not take my advice, so I don’t feel sorry for whatever happened to him.
“He deserves it because he had the opportunity to reorganise everything and he failed.”
Under the Roger Barnor-led administration, all boxing activities have been suspended.
This decision was announced by the National Sports Authority (NSA) in consultation with the Ministry of Sports and Recreation.
In place of boxing administration, a Normalisation Committee has been launched to take charge of all matters to do with the sport in Ghana.
