Story:Michael Donkor
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD has stated that it has no information of any Ghanaians being heckled in Nigeria after the football match between Ghana and Nigeria last Sunday.
It said the Ghana High Commission in Abuja, as well as the Consulate-General of Ghana in Lagos, had been contacted over the allegations that some Ghanaians resident in Nigeria, especially in certain suburbs of Lagos, including Agege, had been heckled and subjected to other forms of intimidation after the Ghana-Nigeria quarter-final encounter at the ongoing Ghana 2008 tournament, which Ghana won by two goals to one.
It said the High Commission and the Consulate-General said no such reports had come to them and that their checks so far had also indicated that nothing of that nature had happened.
The Public Affairs Officer the ministry, Mr K. Boateng said those assurances had been further corroborated in Ghana by the Nigerian High Commission in Accra which, in its press statement on Monday, February 4, 2008, had discounted the occurrence of any such events.
He, therefore, urged all media practitioners to exercise great decorum in their reportage and desist from creating unnecessary panic in the wake of what was an encounter characterised by sportsmanship between the players and brotherliness by supporters at the stadium.
He appealed to all concerned to ensure that they continued to make the Ghana 2008 tournament an event that ignited passion, African unity and love.
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