If you’re sure of your story, go back to court- Tiger Eye dares Nyantakyi

Tiger Eye PI has challenged former Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi to return to the courtroom if he believes his version of events about the Number 12 exposé will stand up to legal scrutiny.

The investigative outfit issued a strongly worded statement on Tuesday, 6 January, accusing Mr Nyantakyi of peddling misinformation in recent media interviews as part of an attempt to repair his public image.

In the interview, Mr Nyantakyi questioned the credibility of Tiger Eye PI’s lead investigator, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, and claimed Anas never appeared in court to testify, despite insisting he had evidence of corruption. He also attacked the undercover methods used in the Number 12 documentary.

Tiger Eye PI dismissed those claims as a deliberate distortion of the record.

The group pointed out that Mr Nyantakyi himself had previously sued Anas for defamation and breach of privacy but later abandoned the case.

Tiger Eye PI stressed that Anas was not a personal litigant against the former GFA boss.

The criminal case, it said, was styled as Republic v. Kwesi Nyantakyi and involved multiple charges, including fraud. The organisation described it as misleading that Mr Nyantakyi continues to frame the saga as a personal grudge between himself and Anas.

Tiger Eye clarified that Anas had agreed to testify for the state as a replacement witness after the murder of colleague investigator Ahmed Suale, who the group says had earlier been threatened by Mr Nyantakyi.

However, that offer to testify was conditional on his safety.

A court later ruled that Anas could give evidence in camera but without a mask, a condition Tiger Eye said would have exposed him to serious risk. The group said Anas therefore declined to appear under those terms, as his participation was based on not revealing his face to Mr Nyantakyi, which it considered non-negotiable.

Tiger Eye PI also took issue with suggestions that the collapse of the criminal case amounted to vindication for the former football chief.

The statement noted that the Attorney-General ultimately discontinued the prosecution, even though Tiger Eye insists there was strong evidence of fraud, impersonation and other offences.

It stressed that the matter ended because the state withdrew the charges, not because a court examined the evidence and cleared Mr Nyantakyi.

On 13 February 2025, an Accra High Court discharged Mr Nyantakyi and his co-accused after a five-year trial in which the prosecution failed to call any of its five listed witnesses. The presiding judge, Justice Marie-Louise Simmonds, brought proceedings to an end on that basis.

The Number 12 documentary, released in 2018, showed Mr Nyantakyi on camera receiving US$65,000 from an undercover reporter and boasting about his ability to use political influence to advance business deals.

The revelations triggered national outrage, forced his resignation from the GFA and FIFA roles, and reshaped debates on corruption in football administration.

Tiger Eye PI has now urged the public to treat Mr Nyantakyi’s latest comments as an attempt to rewrite that history.

“History cannot be rewritten with half-truths and propaganda,” the group said, reaffirming its commitment to its anti-corruption mantra of “name, shame and jail”.