Martha Bissah has finally apologized to Prof. Francis Dodoo and Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) for accusing them wrongly.
Martha Bissah has been suspended indefinitely by the GAA since 2016 for accusing its officials headed by Professor Francis Dodoo in 2016 for indiscipline and peddling lies against the GAA.
The GAA has asked Martha Bissah to apologize before the ban is lifted.
The Olympic youth gold medalist has taken steps to resolve the issue with GAA. Martha Bissah has written an apology letter to GAA, the letter reads;
The letter reads;
The President
Ghana Athletics Association
Accra.
Through :
The Director General
National Sports Authority
ACCRA.
Dear sir,
UNQUALIFIED APOLOGY
I wish to humbly express my sincerest apology and utmost regret for my behavior towards the Ghana Athletics Association in general and Professor Francis Dodoo in Particular sometime in 2015.
I am really sorry for my unprofessional and immature behavior as well as my subscquent defamatory comments.
I Know my actions have damaged our working relationship and hope this broken relationship will be restored to enable us work together again.
I assure you that I will not act in that manner again.
Please accept my apologies.
Thank you
MARTHA BISSAH
signed….
Bissah is Ghana’s only athlete who won gold at the girls’ 800m race at the Youth Olympic Game in 2014.
Background
The 18-year-old attracted the ban over supposed false allegations she labelled against the country’s athletics regulatory body.
Martha Bissah and her camp accused the GAA of extortion while working on a scholarship for her to the United States following her gold medal-winning feat at the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing.
Martha Bissah was offered a scholarship after winning the first Gold medal at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics Games. The athlete has accused the Ghana Athletics Association of demanding GHC7,000 for her to redeem her scholarship.
The scholarship was worth over $100,000 for a period of four years. This requirement did not go down well with the young athlete’s camp thereby propagating it in the media.
