The Minority Group in Parliament on Friday insisted that their call on the government to act on the 25,000-dollars given to the Ghanaian soccer contingent to Nigeria should be heeded.

It said any tendency to ignore the call could be interpreted as the government's unwillingness to deal with allegations concerning people close to it.

Mr Pele Abuga, the Deputy Minority Spokesman on Youth and Sports, told the GNA that it had taken the government too long to act on the issue.

He said some people were appearing before the Fast Track Courts on alleged bribery charges and Mallam Yussif Issah, the former Youth and Sports Minister, was jailed for the loss of 46,000 dollars.

Mr Abuga, Member of Parliament (MP) for Chaana-Paga, said similar allegations made against some members of the government were treated with contempt.

He said it was wrong for people to refer to the money given out as a gift. "I am surprised that people call such a bribe a gift. If it were a gift why should some members of the contingent refuse the money?"

Mr Abuga said selective justice had never served anybody's interest. "It did not help the previous government and would not help the NPP government either. Justice as the saying goes would soon catch up with everybody sooner or later".

He said for the government's zero tolerance for corruption to materialise it would be better to have collective justice in the interest of the totality of the Ghanaian society.

The Ghanaian contingent that went to Port Harcourt to play the Nigerian National Team, Green Eagles in the last World Cup qualifying match was given 25,000 dollars at a reception organised after the match by the River State Governor.

At the same reception the Governor gave the Green Eagles 75,000 dollars. The Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association has since come out to dismiss the allegation of bribe taking as unmeritorious.