Elmina Sharks have debunked reports in the media that players’ salaries for the inactive period which was reduced by a whopping 65 percent was management’s doing.
Anthony Sedenam, who’s the Communications Director for the Ghana Premier League side gave details to the matter, chronicled what led to the earlier reports in the media.
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Some players have complained genuinely about receiving 65 percent short salaries for the month of April and that came to the attention of the media which according to Sedenam, management had no hand in it.
Speaking on the matter Sedenam revealed that some discrepancies with their banking operators and in-house accounting department led to shocking deduction, but the situation has been rectified as at Monday, May 11, 2020.
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“Management hasn’t taken any decision of slashing the players’ salaries, there is no truth in those speculations. We[Management] got the alert from the head coach[Yaw Acheampong] on Wednesday that some players are complaining about 65% slash on their salaries. We quickly got in touch with the accounts department to fin out what has happened.
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“After our accounts department called the bank, they told us[management] that there was a discrepancy, so we instructed them to do everything possible to rectify the situation, according to the bank, those rectifications were done from last Friday to this Monday(May 11, 2020). It was an error transactional problem between our accounting department and the bank that supposed to do the payment.
“The team has not decided or taken any decision to cut any player’s salary, whatever is due to the players is what we are giving them” – Sedenam told Otec FM.
