By: Jerome Otchere

Date: 19-09-11

Dr. K. K. Sarpong has charged Kotoko supporters to rally behind the club while avoiding petty squabbles and tendencies that would set them apart from their core duties as members and fans of the great Kotoko institution.

The club chairman said this should be the time for Kotoko supporters to be united and not do anything to derail the development targets set by the leadership of the club ahead of the coming season and the years to come.

“I am sure you are witnesses to the fact that a lot is being done. This is not the time, and I have said this in my radio commentary. This is not the time for us to have a divided house. In unity we stand; when we are divided we are going to split apart. As we move into the new season, which is just a few weeks away, we need all the supporters. We need unity to rally behind the team” said Dr. K. K. Sarpong in an address to supporters at the inauguration of the three-member committee to resolve the crisis that has plagued the Ashanti Regional Circles Council.

It would be recalled that the ARCC was expected to elect a new chairman in July. However, an attempt to disqualify one of the two candidates threw the entire Council into disarray as the aggrieved candidate sought a court injunction to halt the electioneering process with a new supporters’ group known as the Warriors also emerging weeks later.

Dr. K. K. Sarpong pointed out that there was thus the urgent need for the Board and Management of the club to intervene to bring peace hence the inauguration of the committee to resolve the matter. The three-member committee comprises former Offinso South Municipal Chief Executive, Honourable Freddy Amponsah, who some years back was the Chairman of the Powerful Circle 20.

The other members include Lawyer Marie-Louise Simmons who will be the secretary to the committee and Kwaku Nsiah Yeboah, a building and road contractor based in Kumasi. Dr. Sarpong described the composition of the committee, which has up to October 3, 2011 to submit their recommendations as “good” trusting that the committee does an excellent work.

“I think we have a wonderful team. It is a good committee. We want them to report to us by the end of the month. We have no time to waste. The league starts on the 9th of next month. I want to make sure by 2nd or 3rd we will make a pronouncement on the matter” said Dr, Sarpong.

Chairman of the Committee, Honourable Freddy Amponsah thanked the Kotoko Executive Chairman for the confidence reposed in the committee. “We thank you for the opportunity to serve Kotoko once again. Let me say that we are not going to litigate but rather to resolve problems and we promise to do a good work” said the former MCE.

The full text of Dr. Sarpong’s speech at the committee inauguration has been published elsewhere.