Referee Malik Alidu Salifu believes
he and his colleague Joseph Lamptey should have been recognized by the
President John Mahama for being picked to represent the nation at the 2015
Africa Cup of Nations.
The pair were the only two Ghanaian match officials in
the list of 44 referees for the competition.
The Black Stars were hosted at the
Flagstaff House on Tuesday in a breakfast meeting. And, Alidu Salifu, a FIFA
referee, tells Starr FM Sports they should have also been recognized.
“They should’ve mentioned our
names too, because we represented Ghana.
Look at the number of FIFA referees we
have in the continent. Every continent have less than Five referees and we have
about 53 countries in Africa but the collected only 44 referees and we happened
to be part of it so I thought in my candid opinion, the kind of publicity given
players could have equally been given to us.
Though we had a little publicity
from you the media, Black stars could have also added it even though we were
not going to officiate in their matches, the fact that Ghana was attached to
our name I believe that, we should have also be called to pay homage to the
president as the Black stars did”.
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