Communication Director for the Ghana Football Association, Tamimu Issah has come to the defense of the association’s former Chairman MND Jawula who has been appointed as the leader for the Premier League Management Committee.
There has been criticism from a section of the public following the appointment of MND Jawula as the chairman of the new committee which is set to replace the Premier League Board.
According to reports, MND Jawula has integrity issues which even prevented him from landing a position when government and FIFA wanted to set up a Normalization Committee for the FA in the wake of the Anas Aremeyaw exposé.
Although details are sketchy, Jawula is said to have been indicted in a Commission of Enquiry report.
But despite those ‘ugly noises’ about his candidature, Communication Director for the Ghana Football Association, Tamimu Issah believes, the former Ghana FA chairman has the experience to deliver at the committee he has been put on.
“People will always have something to say but majority views are almost important and I believe many people know that MND Jawula is a man of enormous experience who’s currently playing a key role in CAF. If we have such a great man like that, why don’t we use him locally”, he told Happy FM.
The Ghana Football Association released a statement to confirm his appointment which read, “The Ghana Football Association has named former GFA Chairman, Lepowura MND Jawula as the new Chairman of a new seven-member Premier League Management Committee”.
“The Vice Chairman of the Committee is Jesse Agyapong, a marketing consultant”.
“The GFA has discarded the system which all Premier League clubs were represented on the Premier League Management Committee (formerly called Premier League Board)”.
“Under the new system, the Executive Council will nominate two representatives, who will be the Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively, and the eighteen Premier League clubs will nominate the remaining five members of the Premier League Management Committee”.
“Lepowura M.N.D. Jawula and Jesse Agyapong are the two representatives of the GFA named by the Executive Council and the remaining five representatives will be nominated by the Premier League Clubs”.
“The League Management Committee will serve a one-year term, and the GFA will engage Premier League Clubs towards an autonomous league”.
MND Jawula after his appointment has called for support from all stakeholders to ensure the Premier League returns to its glory days.
