Captain of the national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers, Suleiman Tetteh has rubbished claims that, the team failed to qualify for 2016 Rio Olympic Games, due to their demand for per diems.

Mr. Gideon Quartey, the President of the Ghana Amateur Boxing Federations (GABF), was reported to have said that, the team failed to qualify for the competition during the qualifiers in Cameroon, because of the demand for per diem by the boxers.
Tetteh, described the claims as “total lie” saying “we never demanded for money because we knew when we qualify to the Olympic Games, we will be rewarded well, so why should we do that.

“If you see how the likes of Azumah, Musah Rahman and Abdul Rahman fought in Cameroon, you realise we wanted to qualify”, captain Sulemanu Tetteh told Starr FM in Accra

The Black Bombers have widely been criticized for their failure to secure a single berth to this year’s multi sports event in Brazil, after the sports ministry doled out $20,000 to aid their travel to Cameroon for the qualification.

Team Ghana was represented by eight male boxers with one female boxer, but none made it to the finals, making it the worse results for Ghana’s boxing history for the past 20 years.