It has emerged that the Ghana Football Association’s(GFA) purchase of nine buses for Division-1 football clubs have been caught up in a murky documentation issues and tinkering with chassis numbers of the buses.
Information available to this Paper indicates that per the engine numbers and the year model of the buses, the nine Hyundai Long buses imported for the Division-1 Clubs were actually manufactured in 2008.
However, the chassis numbers on those 2008 buses as imported by the GFA or it’s shipping agent Michael Osekre is that of a 2014 Hyundai Long buses which suggests that there have been some reverse-engineering on the buses chassis.
This reverse-engineering by the shipping agent may have been purely aimed at avoiding taxes or penalties on the over-aged buses.
In fact, when you google the 2008 and 2014 Hyundai Long buses on the internet, it clearly shows that the buses as imported by the GFA are 2008 model.
Again, based on our sources in Korea and the chassis numbers and the engine numbers of some of the buses we forwarded to them, they were able to confirm authoritatively to this Paper that those buses were manufactured in 2008 and not 2014 as stated in the GFA’s clearing documents at the port.
These buses arrived at the port in July 2024 and was cleared by 29th August 2024. However, it will interest readers to know and ask why up till date, non-of these buses have been registered in the name of the clubs even though the buses have been distributed to them already.
…Stay tuned for more on FIFA procurement breaches amongst others as well as the real prices for the buses as against the GFA’s own quotation of Ghc575,000,00 for each bus.
