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“I was not surprised at all that we lost to Cameroon; it was obvious that our firepower up front was sloppy, inaccurate and lacked the requisite skills to be lethal,” he noted.He was speaking on the failure of the senior national team of Ghana, the Black Stars, to reach the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations final in Gabon after suffering a 0-2 defeat to Cameroon on Thursday February 2.The former Minister of Information revealed that he was an ardent supporter of the black Stars but the passion for the game had dropped “due to the antics of the players and the woeful overall management of the great game in Ghana”.

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The former actor and outspoken legislature said he strongly believes that the country needed to strengthen its league and build the core of the national teams with players from the local league.Commenting further, he called for the revival of football and athletics at the lower levels of education to unearth talents which can be groomed to have enough options for the national teams.

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“I strongly believe in concentrating on a squad of players drawn from the local league to form the basis of a new Black Stars. We must also encourage and support school and college soccer competitions because that is where the talents lie,” he added on a post in his Facebook wall on Friday, February 3.