I am all for standing up for your right to take what is due you—especially when corrupt officials want to undermine your thinking faculty and take you for a hoodwink but I am against violence.
Therefore, aside the confirmed attach on one of the Black Stars’ committee members by Sulley Muntari, I am proud he stood up against the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and stamped his feet down to claim what he is due at the time he wanted it.
According to the GFA boss-Kwesi Nyantakyi, Sulley Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng together with a third person were the ‘gang’ leaders who masterminded the various boycott and ‘we want our money now’ campaign, which led to the Government of Ghana flying about 3 million dollar cash to Brazil this week for distribution among the footballers.
If Sulley Muntari was in fact banned indefinitely for this act of bravery (which it seems so as Kevin Prince Boateng was banned too), I will say, he is a hero for standing up for his right.
However, I am worried about the violence and the temper of Sulley Muntari—and I know several people have been talking about it too.
Sulley Muntari has shown on enough occasions that he has a very bad temper—and somewhat comes across as a man who will not think twice before launching a physical assault on anyone who pushes out his temper.
Against the above background, I am nervous about what happens back home when Sulley Muntari is alone with his wife-Menaye Donkor, when there are no cameras and people watching his actions.