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Newly elected Ghana Football Association president Kurt E.S Okraku has vowed not to run a family and friend’s GFA as he begins his four year reign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former Radio Gold Sports journalist won on Friday with an overwhelming 93 votes after three rounds of a keenly contested election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He beat off competition from the likes of George Afriyie, Fred Pappoe, Nana Yaw Amponsah, George Ankomah and Amanda Clinton to emerge winner of the election.<\/p>\n

The previous FA boss was accused of surrounding himself with boot-lickers who could not give<\/p>\n

him good counsel or criticize him when he erred but Kurt has vowed to rule the association with quality personnel and not just friends and cronies.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Joy Fm’s newsfile Kurt assured that he will surround himself with quality personnel to create a robust industry.<\/p>\n

“I think that by and large I have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubts that I believe in quality and so do the President of the land, I believe in bringing people with different qualities, different opinion positions together to be able to build and the basis have shown that with my Dreams FC project and the MTN FA CUP but this journey is totally different from what we are talking about anyway, I believe in harnessing all the people we have in this country and to ensure that we are able to build an industry that will be envy for many people…” he assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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