Some coaches in Ghana’s Premier and Division One Leagues are allegedly utilising phoney CAF qualifications, according to Dr. Kwame Baah Nuakoh, chairman of the Club Licensing Committee.

Baah Nuakoh, who made the shocking disclosure on Sporty FM in Accra, revealed that the Ghana Football Association had alerted his organisation.

We have been notified by the GFA’s technical department that several phoney CAF certificates are in use.

People are acquiring jobs by falsifying CAF licenses.

He questioned the clubs’ possible responsibility and the amount of due diligence they had done before employing such coaches.

The question then becomes, are the employers aware? since these credentials are only entered into the system by employers.

Since the individual lacks access to the application system, it will be a club official.

Furthermore, according to Baah Nuakoh, some people are passing off certificates of participation as legitimate coaching licenses.

Although some of them have certificates of completion for licensing courses, this does not imply that they are licensed.

You may have taken a licensing course, but it’s possible that you failed it.

In such case, you may have a certificate of participation but no licence to coach.

“From Premier League to Division One League, we are witnessing a lot of that.”

Before granting licenses to clubs to fully participate in GFA-sanctioned competitions, the GFA established the Club Licensing Committee to review club applications and make sure they meet the legal, administrative, financial, technical, medical, and security requirements of the GFA Statutes and the GFA Club Licensing Regulations.

Baah Nuakoh has since asserted, meanwhile, that no club received a licence to operate last year.