After it emerged yesterday that over 200 Ghanaian football fans suspected to be part of the 650 official supporters the Government of Ghana sponsored to the 2014 Brazil World Cup were seeking for asylum in Brazil, the Government has reacted, suggesting that the grounds for their claims are false.

Before moving on to what the Government of Ghana is saying, let me point out that—if the Government attended to the problems of Ghana with the same swiftness with which it attends to issues damaging to its reputation, the country would have been better and these people will not be seeking for asylum in Brazil.

According to the fans who have become asylum seekers in Brazil, they are Muslims who are fleeing religious conflict in Ghana.

However, the Deputy Information Minister-Felix Kwakye Ofosu has come out to say, “the basis for this alleged [asylum] request is completely false as no religious conflict is taking place in Ghana”.

He added that, “Ghana’s mission in Brazil has been instructed to liaise with the Brazilian authorities to investigate the matter”.

No doubt Ghana is a peaceful country—and this is because the citizens love peace. However, Ghana is at economic war and these Ghanaians do not want to be part of the struggling, which is tipped to get worse should the Government continue this way…