Nyantakyi breaks down in tears narrating how Wa All Stars boss ended up in Nsawam prison

Former Ghana Soccer Affiliation president Kwesi Nyantakyi broke down emotionally while explaining how his outdated buddy and former Wa All Stars chairman Alhaji Inusah ended up behind bars.

Nyantakyi shared the heartbreaking story in the course of the launch of the Prisons Soccer Mission on Tuesday, third June 2025, a programme designed to make use of sport to assist rehabilitate inmates in Ghana’s jail system.

The undertaking, run alongside the Skilled Footballers Affiliation of Ghana (PFAG), consists of donating sports activities gear to jail services throughout the nation.

Talking about his current go to to Nsawam Medium Security Prison, Nyantakyi revealed that seeing his outdated mate Alhaji Inusah there fully modified his perspective on life and impressed him to dedicate himself to serving to prisoners. Nyantakyi stated:

From a private place, I need to commit myself to working to higher the lot of prisoners for the remainder of my life. I’d by no means have considered jail till two weeks in the past after I got here right here to go to my brother from Wa, Alhaji Inusah.

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He went on to elucidate their lengthy historical past collectively:

We met him there [in prison]. All of us went to the identical faculty; Maxwell Konadu, Kwame Ayew—they usually all performed for Higher West Heroes Soccer Membership with Inusah. After I fashioned Wa All Stars, he was the primary chairman of the membership for about 5 years.

Nyantakyi recollects tragic incident

Nyantakyi then recounted the tragic incident that led to his buddy’s imprisonment, his voice clearly heavy with emotion.

Someday, he went to his land in Wa as a result of he had heard that some folks had been promoting it. He went there with a pump-action gun, they usually threatened to beat him. They had been many, numbering as much as 12, so he determined to problem a warning shot.

The former GFA boss explained how a split-second determination modified every part:

The error he made was that, as an alternative of issuing the shot within the air, he shot on the bottom, and the bullets ricocheted and hit two harmless folks over 100 metres away… They weren’t linked to the problem, they usually died. That is what despatched him to jail, so it may occur to anyone.