The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has revealed to JoySports that one of the containers that delivered one of the nine buses procured by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for Division One League clubs contained over 30 mattresses, bringing the total expenditure to GHC 356,380.33.
It is not immediately known to JoySports whether the mattresses were intended for the revamped Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence or for another purpose.
It is not also known to JoySports whether the other eight containers that delivered the buses had mattresses or other items.
Last week, JoySports reported that some of the buses imported by the football governing body for GHC 5,175,000 and cleared by Freightgistics Ghana Company Ltd. had yet to be registered due to the unavailability of documentation, according to some clubs.
The report indicated that the “used Hyundai County bus” arrived with other items in the container, which could not be readily identified.
It has now emerged that these additional imported goods were medium-sized and student mattresses.
JoySports’ Muftawu Nabila Abdulai had written to the GRA requesting details of the container’s contents. However, the response was received after the story had been published, so these details were not incorporated into the initial report.
