{"id":13120,"date":"2018-11-07T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2018-11-07T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:24:28","slug":"we-paid-100000-to-stop-screening-of-anas-video-nyantakyis-wife-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=13120","title":{"rendered":"We paid $100,000 to stop screening of Anas video \u2013 Nyantakyi\u2019s wife alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi\u2019s wife, Christine-Marie Nyantakyi, has reiterated the claim that her husband indeed doled out an amount of $100,000 in a desperate attempt to stop the public screening of Anas\u2019 number 12 expos\u00e9 on football corruption, that has effectively damaged the former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President\u2019s career and dignity.<\/p>\n
Mr. Nyantakyi has been banned from all football activities for the rest of his life, and has been fined 500,000 Swiss Francs (equivalent of Ghc2,414,276.46 and $497,490.00 respectively), for various breaches of FIFA\u2019s code of ethics after he was exposed by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.<\/p>\n
It would be recalled that before the screening of the investigative piece in June 2018, news emerged from Mr. Nyantakyi\u2019s camp that Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI team, had attempted to blackmail him by demanding $100,000 from him to stop the screening of the video.<\/p>\n
The Anas camp however denied being a party to such blackmail, suggesting that someone might be seeking to serve as an intermediary for that purpose without their knowledge or approval.<\/p>\n
But speaking for the first time on the grace to grass story of her husband on Metro TV\u2019s Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, Mrs. Christine-Marie Nyantakyi, who\u2019s also the Director of Oasis Montessori School at Teshie Greda Estates, stated emphatically that; in their desperation at the time after seeing pieces of the video, they were approached by some persons who said they could stop the screening for an amount of $150,000.<\/p>\n
She said her husband only gave out $100,000 because that was all he could pay. She however did not state categorically if the men had links to Anas or Tiger Eye PI.<\/p>\n
According to her, the amount was paid back to them in tranches after the screening of the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, there\u2019s information, and there\u2019s truth in that information. Apparently, we became so desperate when we realized that all that they presented to us were false, so we tried to make some interventions, and they proposed that he pays some money. They proposed $150,000; my husband couldn\u2019t afford it, so he gave out $100,000 dollars, and they came back to him and said the person says you need to add $50,000, and he said well, I don\u2019t have it; that\u2019s all that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what happened to the $100,000, she said it was later returned to them when the video was shown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey brought $40,000 first; and then later on, they brought $60,000 dollars. I have not gathered the courage to watch the full video, because the small that I watched, I knew that the way he is talking; that is not my husband; something might have gone wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
She however did not provide any documentary proof or mention the names of the individuals who were involved in this arrangement.<\/p>\nMr. and Mrs. Nyantakyi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I don\u2019t know what they did to my husband<\/strong><\/p>\n
Asked what she believed might have gone wrong with him, she said; \u201cI don\u2019t know what they did to him. My husband is a very skeptical person; I don\u2019t know what they did to him to follow them like that. You don\u2019t just get him to follow you like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the host, Paul Adom-Otchere asked if he could have been under a spell or some incantations, she responded in the affirmative.<\/p>\n
According to her, the husband informed her that he had received $40,000 on his second Dubai trip, and that the amount was to cover for the cost of his trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me this long before the video came out. He said it was for reimbursement of his ticket, because that was the agreement they had. So he accepted the money with the belief that it was a refund for his trip as agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018My husband is pained\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n
Mrs. Nyantakyi said her husband is pained, as he kept wondering what the motive could have been for this.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis worry and the bother is what the motive was; so he tried to find out from people why did they do that? The motive for somebody planning, plotting, strategizing and executing this just to make sure he\u2019s disgraced. So that has been his pain and worry; he doesn\u2019t mind at all whatever has happened; he has taken that in good faith, but each day he keeps asking what have I done wrong? If they wanted me out they could have found another way; but that scheming to that extent\u201d.<\/p>\n
She suggested that what happened to her husband, could befall anyone, if people were to shine the light on what others have discussed or done in their closet about people.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaul, I mean we are all human beings\u2026the conversations that we have every day amongst us as friends, as associates and business partners, if those conversations are taken out, all of us will be in trouble. The sociologists will tell you that human beings are complex beings; as soon as a light is thrown on you; your behaviour, your demeanour, your gestures change; so you talk to somebody knowing that there\u2019s no one else watching you, there are no cameras; and then all of a sudden; everything is in the open. If he had known, I am sure that things that he said or did; he wouldn\u2019t have done them. So that\u2019s the pain that he has\u2026That you come to me; deceive me and then I follow you; for you to do this to me. He\u2019s okay with it; he has learnt a lot of lessons even though very bitterly\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Although the incident has taken a huge toll on them especially their two daughters, aged 13 and 9; she said they\u2019re coping by the help of God.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes; it\u2019s been tough for us, but we\u2019ve been able to hold on by the grace of God.<\/p>\n
My husband won\u2019t run away; be patient with him \u2013 Nyantakyi\u2019s wife begs<\/strong><\/p>\n
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