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It has emerged that Ghana Premier League referee Samuel Sukah accepted a healthy sum of money to rig the matchweek 8 fixture played on March 19 2017, between Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak in favour of the Phobians.<\/p>\n
Sukah awarded a controversial penalty in the 84th<\/sup>\u00a0minute of the match to home side Hearts of Oak after Awudu Nafiu was adjudged to have handled the ball.<\/p>\n Vincent Atinga made no mistake as he stepped up to convert the spot kick which ensured they picked up all three points.<\/p>\n Despite massive outrage especially from Asante Kotoko after the game he was cleared by the Referee Review Committee of any wrongdoing in the Super Clash.<\/p>\n Sukah did employ the help of his supporting officials to influence the game.<\/p>\n As the main man, he took an amount of Ghc 2,000, while Assistant One Eric Nantiere and Assistant Two Salifu Rahman both pocketed an amount of GHc 1,500 each.<\/p>\n The victory ended Asante Kotoko\u2019s unbeaten run at the time.<\/p>\n He and his cohorts were caught on tape as part of the investigative piece on corruption in football put together by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his team.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Source:Citinewsroom.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has emerged that Ghana Premier League referee Samuel Sukah accepted a healthy sum of money to rig the matchweek 8 fixture played on March 19 2017, between Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak in favour of the Phobians. Sukah awarded a controversial penalty in the 84th\u00a0minute of the match to home side Hearts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n