President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantekyi has said that he cannot look down upon people who could not complete their education through no fault of theirs.

Speaking at his first monthly media briefing in Cape-Coast, the President said he was taken out of contest from a statement that he made in the media a few weeks ago that ‘school drop out and even those who did not complete their Junior High School are all criticizing the FA for signing what they deemed as a JSS contract with the departed coach Goran Stevanovic’.

“I was only responding to a question but I was taken out of contest and I have to accept it. For me what I thought was right is that in the wake of those arguments I wanted journalists to have contacted sports lawyers to share their candid taught on the contract so we could have gotten a concrete view about the contract but instead social commentators took it over and making all kinds of comment including questioning my personal reputation as a lawyer”, Nyantekyi said.

“For me I think it’s a privilege to have been to the law school. Its an opportunity because I went to one secondary school and there are many people who are better than me and yet could not get the opportunity to attend the university or the law school”.

“My mother went to a middle school form 4 and that was her highest form of education so I cannot look down upon anyone who could not complete his education through no fault of his. There are indeed a lot of people in my village who did not go to school but they gave me money, they thought me common wisdom so I will never say that”, Nyantekyi added.

By: El-Amisty Nobo/Freelance Journalist