The mother of two appeared on a late night TV show on Tuesday to express support her better half who has been handed a life ban from all football activities and a hefty fine by FIFA for breaking its code of ethics.

Christine-Marie feels the former FIFA Council member has been treated unfairly because there are no criminal charges against him.



”My pain is that Ghanaians should exercise patience. Kwesi is not running away; he’s here. If the court or if the processes find Kwesi guilty, he’s available to face the consequences,” she said on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme.

”But until then, the name-calling, the insults, the jubilation and the celebrations that he’s down, I am begging and pleading that we should all hold our horses and wait.

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”Time will tell; he’s ready to face any consequences.

”He says if I have done something wrong; let the law take its course. If he’s found innocent we give glory to God; so we are ready for any consequences.”

She later suggested that her husband wasn’t himself.

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“They 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,” she bemoaned.

When the host asked if he could have been under a spell or some incantations, she responded in the affirmative.

The decision of the Ghana government to dissolve the GFA came in the wake of an investigative piece by under cover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas dubbed “Number 12” which exposed the corruption and rot in the Football Association, most notably the president Kwesi Nyantakyi.

Following that expose, FIFA suspended Mr. Nyantakyi for 90 days but the government of Ghana went further and began processes to dissolve the whole association and restructure it.

However in a letter dated 13th August 2018 from FIFA, they stated explicitly that should the government go further with this, the country could no longer partake in a any tournament or competition organized by FIFA.

This would mean that Ghana would be ineligible to play in the upcoming AFCON 2019 qualifiers in September and also the U20 Youth Championship in Niger next year.

Government have not yet responded to this letter but it appears many Ghanaians are not bothered by the eminent ban as the restructuring of the whole association seems to be of paramount concern.