Former Ghana Football Association president, Kwesi Nyantakyi was full of emotions while addressing the media at the launch of the Prisons Football Project.
Kwesi Nyantakyi on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, launched the Prisons Football Project, an initiative aimed at using sport as a rehabilitation tool within Ghana’s correctional system.
The project, rolled out in partnership with the Professional Footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG), includes the donation of sporting equipment to prison facilities.
Speaking at the launch of the Prisons Football Project, Kwesi Nyantakyi broke down in tears while talking about how a visit Alhaji Inusah, an old friend and colleague from their days in Upper West Heroes FC, that triggered his decision to devote his life to supporting inmates.
“We met him there [in prison]. We all went to the same school Maxwell Konadu, Kwame Ayew and they all played for Upper West Heroes Football Club with Inusah.”
“When I formed Wa All Stars, he was the first chairman of the club for about five years. One day, he went to his land in Wa because he had heard that some people were selling it. He went there with a pump-action gun and they threatened to beat him. They were many, numbering up to 12, so he decided to issue a warning shot.”
“The mistake he made was that, instead of issuing the shot in the air, he shot on the ground, and the bullets ricocheted and hit two innocent people over 100 metres away They were not connected to the issue and they died. That’s what sent him to jail, so it could happen to anybody,” Kwesi Nyantakyi said.
