Breaking News: Kumasi High School place court injunction on 2023 Ashanti Regional Inter-school soccer competition [Check the details]

Kumasi High School (KUHIS) has placed an injunction on the 2023 Ashanti Regional Inter-school and College Boys’ Soccer Competition.

The competition was set to commence on Thursday, July 13, 2023, but due to the latest developments, the Schools Sports Federation in the Ashanti Region has put the games on hold.

“Yes, it is true that we (KUHIS) have placed a court injunction on the games. We decided to do that because their decision against us was not fair without delving much into it,” a member of the Kuhis team told FootydreamsGH.com.

KUHIS lost a protest filed against them by Asare Bediako Senior High School over the use of an unqualified player during the 2023 Ashanti Regional Inter-school and College Boys’ Soccer Competition qualifiers.

The Gyinyase-based school defeated complainants Asare Bediako SHS 3-1 on Thursday, June 29, 2023. They went on to defeat Wiafe Akenten 8-0 and secured a 2-0 victory over Dadease Agric SHS at the KUMACA Centre.

However, after the qualifiers, the hierarchy of Asare Bediako filed a protest against KUHIS over the use of one player called Richmond Anokye.

The Disciplinary Committee of the Ashanti Regional Schools Sports Federation sat on the case on Thursday, July 6, 2023. After proceedings, KUHIS were declared losers. Per the competition rules, KUHIS were deducted 3 points and 3 goals and were fined GHS 500.00.

Background of the Protest

Richmond Anokye first sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2017 at New Edubiase M/A JHS, but did not attend any Senior High School with that certificate.

He sat for the BECE examination again in 2019 at Fumso L/A JHS, but for the second time, he could not attend school with it.

In 2020, Richmond Anokye sat for another BECE at KAASE M/A JHS, and this time he got the opportunity to be enrolled at Kumasi High School.

According to FootyDreamsGH.com sources, Richmond got admission into KUHIS using the 2020 BECE certificate.

But per the competition rules of the Federation, a player has only two consecutive years grace period to participate in the soccer competition after failing to enter any SHS the year he writes his FIRST  BECE examination. The player is therefore not eligible to represent any school after the two-year time frame has elapsed.

So, in the case of Richmond Anokye, since he wrote his FIRST BECE in 2017, he should have entered senior high school at least by 2019, which he did.

But KUHIS registered Anokye with his 2020 BECE certificate, and given that he had his FIRST sitting in 2017, he does not qualify to participate in 2023 since his grace period was up to 2019.