Veteran football administrator Alhaji Karim Grunsah says if football development is the major criterion for the election of one onto the CAF Executive Committee, then Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku would not be deserving.
He said the Ghana Football Association (GFA) President is not qualified to be a CAF Executive Committee member if his record on football development is anything to go by.
Kurt Okraku was on Wednesday, March 12 at the 14th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football elected as one of the members of the Executive Committee.
He contested unopposed as the President of the West African Football Union (WAFU).
Speaking on Onua TV‘s Agoro Fie a few hours after the election, Alhaji Grunsah said he doesn’t know the criteria CAF uses to elect officials to its Executive Committee.
But he surmised that the process takes the form of a campaign where those who have money and are able to travel far and wide to speak to delegates get favoured.
It is not about those who deserve it, he stressed, CAF does not look that direction.
But for that, Alhaji Grunsah indicated, Kurt Okraku would not have been voted for.
“If it’s about the development of football, particularly in each country, Kurt would not have gotten it,” he insisted to host Alfred Takyi-Mensah.
“In Cameroon [for AFCON 2021], we didn’t do anything. In Cote d’Ivoire [for AFCON 2023], we were last. As for Morocco [for AFCON 2025], we won’t go. So how did he qualify to be elected?
“CAF does not look at those things. Now, when he came, where have our U-17, U-20, U-23 teams been? Our clubs for CAF competitions have reduced. He did not do anything, just thinking about himself and his family.”
