Bissah must explore all avenues - says Foh-Amoaning
A former president of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), Moses Foh-Amoaning, has waded into the Martha Bissah feud with the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), urging the young promising athlete must explore all available avenues for sports adjudication to clear her name.
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Mr Foh-Amoaning told the Graphic Sports that although it was unclear the offence for which Martha Bissah was suspended, she did apologise verbally in the presence of her guardian, Mikki Osei Berko, when she was invited by a disciplinary body set up by Prof Dodoo’s administration.
He, therefore, described as wrong the treatment being meted out to Martha Bissah, who he said was a juvenile at the time of her alleged wrong doing.
Sharing his thoughts on the future of the young female athlete and her suspension by the GAA, Mr Foh-Amoaning, who is a law lecturer, described what was happening as “wicked and unreasonable”, adding that “the law courts must be the last resort for Martha to recover damages after she had explored all the adjudication avenues such as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Narrating the events that preceded Bissah’s suspension by the GAA to the Graphic Sports, Martha’s guardian, Kweku Nimako, himself a former athlete, said after a first meeting with Martha had been called off, the GAA later called for another meeting which the athlete attended in the company of Mr Osei Berko.
He said the GAA, after the meeting, said the matter had been resolved and therefore restrained Martha from talking to the media.
However, contrary to what transpired at the meeting, Mr Nimako said, the GAA suddenly began to frustrate Martha’s efforts until Mr George Lutterodt, a former GAA president, came to her aid.
He appealed to the government to use its executive powers to summon Prof Dodoo, on the matter, stressing that, “We do not know Martha’s crime as at now for her to be treated in this manner and so for us she owes nobody an apology”.
Martha, who is presently studying at the Norfolk State University in the USA, has so far won four gold medals and a cross country race, even though she is origiinally an 800-metre athlete.
She is currently the most outstanding female athlete of the school.