“I’m so disappointed… it’s unfair. That sends a wrong signal,” were the express words of the chairman of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, Justice Senyo Dzamefe, in his reaction to the Black Stars no show at the fact-finding body.

The players were scheduled to appear before the three-member body Thursday to give their side of the story of happenings at the 2014 World Cup. Midfielder Sulley Muntari engaged in a fisticuff with a management member Moses Armah Parker over an appearance fee. He together with colleague Kevin-Prince Boateng were expelled from the camp prior to their final group game against Portugal.

A very livid Justice Dzamefe did not take kindly to the obvious snub after the Commission received a letter from the Ghana FA communicating the football governing body’s inability to “physically” bring the players to the hearing “because they are all adults.”

“To be frank this time you goofed. I’m so disappointed,” the Appeals Court judge pointed out to the Ghana FA president Kwesi Nyantakyi and his lawyer Thaddeus Sory, who were present at the hearing.

A letter from the Ghana FA’s solicitors to the Commission read in part: “…We have advised our client (GFA boss) to bring to the attention of the players concerned the notice of hearing directly sent to our client… which was duly sent out… We, however, advise our client that he has no authority whatsoever in his capacity as the president of the Ghana FA to physically produce each of the players concerned without interfering with their personal right…

“All the players have attained the age of majority and are of full capacity for which reason they are not subject to our client’s direct control in their individual and personal capacities saved for the limited purposes the GFA has procured their consent and that of their clubs to travel to Ghana from their respective club bases.

“The GFA’s arrangement with each of the players concerned and their respective clubs only permits the Association to hold unto them until after the competitive match of the Black Stars on Wednesday after which each of the players is no longer under the Association’s control…

“We trust that we have sufficiently explained to the Commission our client’s effort to comply with the Commission’s request within his very limited capacity and to the extent to which it is legally permissible by our client so to do.”

After reading the letter, Justice Dzamefe said the team has missed an “opportunity to tell their side of their story” in Brazil.