Kurt Okraku says 44 years without AFCON glory proves the GFA can't carry Ghana's football dream alone, and he wants lawmakers to help fund it.
Ghana's football leadership has taken its case straight to the lawmakers. GFA President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku urged Parliament to back wider national investment in the game, insisting the Association cannot deliver lasting success by itself.
He made the appeal on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, when the GFA Executive Council met Parliament's Select Committee on Sports. The agenda was broad: the Black Stars, the domestic game, refereeing, infrastructure, investment and the financial strain on the Association. Vice-President Mark Addo led the delegation alongside Council members Nana Sarfo Oduro, Gideon Fosu, Frederick Acheampong, Kingsley Osei Bonsu, Samuel Aboabire, Eugene Nobel Noel, Alhaji Abu-Hassan and Dr. Ransford Abbey.
Simeon-Okraku put the Black Stars' long wait for continental glory at the center of his argument. Ghana have not lifted the Africa Cup of Nations in 44 years, even though the country has produced several generations of top-class talent and reached three finals in that time. For him, that record is a fact that demands honest examination, not just frustration.
He held back on spelling out some of the reasons in public, saying the cameras in the room meant sensitive remarks could do damage. The message to Parliament was still clear: if Ghana wants its talent to translate into trophies, the state, the Association and other stakeholders have to pull in the same direction.
