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Ruling date set for FA/Nania FC case

16 years ago
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An Accra High Court has set Tuesday, August 28, as the ruling date for an injunction application filed by a director of Nania FC to restrain the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association from beginning hearing into the case of alleged match of convenience.

After listening to submissions in court on Tuesday by FA counsel Frank Davis and Nania Kwesi Afrifa, lawyer for the plaintiff, presiding judge, Justice Vida Akoto postponed the verdict to next week.

Maha Ayew on behalf of Nania FC, is seeking to have the court restrain the FA from rehearing the case and commencing the 2007/2008 football season pending the club's appeal case on an earlier judgment.

Earlier, an Accra Fast-Track High Court threw out the suit brought against the FA by the director of Nania FC.

Maha Ayew, wife of Abedi Pele, who is a director and a shareholder of Nania FC sued the Ghana Football Association as well as its President, Kwesi Nyantakyi, the chairmen of the Disciplinary and Appeals Committee of the FA – Amadu Tanko and Justice Anim Yeboah respectively, asking the court to restrain the FA from rehearing the alleged match of convenience case between her club and Okwawu United.

The sitting judge in dismissing that suit explained that an application for judicial review cannot apply to the FA, stating that such applications are applicable to public bodies and not private bodies like FA.

The Appeals committee of the FA had set aside the ruling of the Disciplinary Committee banning the clubs for their roles in playing a match of convenience and directed the disciplinary body to re hear the matter.

Nania FC beat Okwawu United 31-0 on the last day of the promotion league.