The Ghana Football Association Normalization Committee have responded to the letter sent by the Referee Association of Ghana over unpaid fees.

The Referee Association of Ghana released a letter on Monday announcing that they have suspended any football officiating related activities in the Special Competition due to the fact that they haven’t been paid.

The Normalization Committee’s statement states that the body is still waiting for budget approval from the Ministry of Youths and Sports, and have written to remind them to approve funds for the Special Competition.



Full Statement: 

The Normalisation Committee (NC) has officially been informed by the Referees Association of Ghana (RAG) by a letter dated 6th May 2019, that due to the non-payment of officiating fees to its members, effective Tuesday, May 7th, it will suspend officiating matches.

The NC has notified the Ministry of Youth & Sports about this latest development as it continues to wait for funds contained in the approved budget for the competition including officiating fees for referees, to be released.

The NC remains confident that the Ministry of Youth and Sports will fulfill its obligations per the budget approved for the NC Special Competition. The NC appreciates the existing collaboration between the Ministry of Youth and Sports and itself.

For the avoidance of doubt, our doors remain open to the media for any clarification on all matters relating to the NC Special Competition.

The NC wishes to assure the sporting public and all football stakeholders that it is committed to restoring sanity, transparency, and accountability in its efforts to revive public and corporate confidence in Ghana football. However, these efforts shall require the cooperation of all stakeholders.

We continue to call for peace and decency brotherhood and unity at all football matches in the country.

COMMUNICATIONS TEAM

GFA- NORMALISATION COMMITEE

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Referee Association of Ghana announced on Monday morning that they will suspend all activities relating to officiating games in the Special Competition due to unpaid salaries.

According to a statement released by the referees, the Referees Association of Ghana failed to redeem all outstanding debt promised them before the end of April.

The failure on the part of the Association has forced the officials to suspend activities in the remaining games.

Below is the statement from the referees:



SUSPENSION OF MATCH OFFICIATING BY REFEREES

We write to inform you that the Referees Association of Ghana after carefully deliberating on your failure to redeem your promise of paying all outstanding officiating fees owed our members before close of April 2019, we decided to call on all our members to suspend handling all football match officiating at all levels and at all league centers from tomorrow, 7^th May 2019.



RAG is compelled to take this tough decision because several letters were written drawing your attention to the unpaid officiating allowances and other things which were consistently not attended to. All RAG members owed are finding it difficult to travel to match venues due to the unpaid allowances.

Apart from this, RAG National Executives also placed several calls to various Executive Members of the Normalization Committee without any favorable feedback.

As a result of the above, members of Referees Association of Ghana have the firm instruction to SUSPEND all activities relating to match officiating from tomorrow until all issues relating to outstanding unpaid officiating fees and other Referee challenges are immediately resolved.



By a copy of this notice, all Referees Association of Ghana, Regional Chairmen are to immediately notify all Referees within their Regions about this suspension immediately until otherwise advised by the RAG, National Secretariat.

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