By: David Kyei

Date: 27-06-11

A retired Assistant Superintendent of Police (A.S.P), Mr. Audland Kwasi Dapaah,  has asked Kotoko supporters to exhibit utmost respect  in their dealings with fellow supporters and leaders of the club as it is the only way they can foster the needed unity to move the club forward.

He has also advised non-affiliated supporters of the club to join Circles so that they could be channelled into a stronger backbone for the club.

A.S.P Dapaah made these submissions when he took the floor to speak at the National Circles’ Council (N.C.C) delegates congress held at the offices of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs in Kumasi last weekend.

According to the respected retired police officer, Kotoko can boast of all sorts of high profile professionals whom the club could harness for stronger benefit of the club.

“However and unfortunately, almost all these people have stayed away from the club and the circles because they do not want any one to run their hard earned reputation into the mud”.

“When one hears the kind of comments most supporters make about people and the leadership of the club, one can only take a safe posture by staying away”.

He advised that the club needed unity to have the right mentality to excel and so it behoved on supporters of the club to provide that environment for management to be able to smoothly run the affairs of the club to an expected end.

Concluding his brief yet impressive speech, he admonished supporter to help kill rumour mongering and speculation in the club as those have been driving the team into crisis.

“People have been feeding supporters with wrong information because fans of Kotoko are not joining the circles where their leaders can get them the true and correct inside information”.

“I have the conviction that when people begin to identify themselves with the circles, the body would become stronger and their bargaining power pertaining to their relationship with management would be enhanced”.

“When that happens, a direct access to management and insider information will help the fans to be abreast with the real situation on the ground in the team, and this will help kill the misinformation and rumour mongering that is so rife in Kotoko,” he concluded.