Business moguls make cash donation to Kotoko
Posted On Friday, 4th May 2012
Samson Deen
By Ameenu Shardow
Business heavyweights Osei Kwame (Despite) and Samson Deen have made cash contributions to Asante Kotoko in their efforts to raise funds to offset debts.
The Kumasi-based club is saddled with recently incurred Fifa fines for bridges in transfer procedure in the sale of players in the past and also for the wrongful sacking of German Hans Dieter Schmidt in 2005.
The donations of Osei Kwame who has holdings in the media and entertainment industry of 6000 Ghana cedis while Deen who is Chief Executive of leading travel and tour firm; African Origin contributed $1000 couldn’t have been better timed.
The club in-turn expressed their profound gratitude in the gesture as they look to rope in more funds to deal with the incurred liabilities.
“The club intends making further payments to the aggrieved parties and therefore the contributions from these gentlemen very timely,” the club’s spokesperson Listowell Bukarson told GHANAsoccernet.com.
Kotoko who have just won the Ghanaian top flight with four games to spare are to cough up in excess of 130,000 Euros or risk Fifa sanctions.
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That is a good stride in trying to save Kotoko from from the blushes of debt.Kudos guys and God bless……
The Fabulous club owes you guys tons of gratitude for your timely donations during these trying times. May God reward and bless you all in abundance.
May Allah blez u all 4 u kind gestures.
Multitudes of thanks goes to these honorable gentlemen for all the material, moral and monetary support given to this club over the years. Kotoko thanks all those people whose spirit of generosity has benefited this wonderful club in every measure.
Why can’t The Great Otumfuo Osei Tutu settle the debt? He should show the world that we Ashantis have the money and we don’t beg for pittance.
Nana has setup an enity Kotoko which must be capable f managing its affairs… if management approch Nana i do believe he will help. but for now let Kotoko manage its affairs.
@ Ijahman-: you must retract your stupid ethno-centered comments now, these kind of thoughtless comments by chain-smokers like Ijahman is the reason why people who don’t know nothing about this ALL-EMBRACING club (kotoko) always capitalizes on to cast a slur at the club and paint the club in a bad picture by arguing that this Fantastica free-for-all club is an exclusively ASHANTI club, which obviously has never been the case and would never be the case as people like you may want it to be or want some people to believe. Kotoko is for everybody and anyone who feels and wants to join can join at his own free-will irrespective of that person’s ethnicity or social background, gender or religion or country of origin. People like you IJAHMAN are more an enemies to Kotoko than supporters. NANA OTUMFUOR’S able-authority doesn’t allow ethnic distinction between tribes or superiority-posture of one tribe over another. Make sure you guard your comments, never let it assume some tribal connotations or Some of us would come out on this forum to severely rebuke you. Good day to TERROR, GAS @ UCC, SETH, etc.
@fresher…bro thanks so much for ur response to ijaman…when did kotoko become Ashanti team…i was very disappointed in his comments but after reading ur response to his irresponsible comments i breathed a deep sigh of relief. Team kotoko as u said is de bonafide property of anyone who feel connected to it irrespective of one’s religion, tribe, color.ETC. I thank God people like u are always around to put things in order. U always to my max respect…FAAAAAABU DE THE TRUE CLUB OF DE MASSES ..FAAABU DE GREATEST.