Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi has rejected claims by Tiger Eye PI that the Attorney General dropped charges against him, insisting instead that he was formally discharged by the Accra High Court.
In a strongly worded 14-point statement dated January 14, 2026, Nyantakyi said Tiger Eye PI’s January 6 response to an interview he granted JoyNews, if left unchallenged, “risks misleading the public.”
He said he would ordinarily have ignored the statement, describing Tiger Eye PI as “a busybody” in the matter, but felt compelled to respond because, in his view, the organisation was once again trying to drag his name “into contempt and disrepute,” something he says has been happening since 2018.
Nyantakyi flatly denied assertions that the Attorney General withdrew the charges against him, calling those claims “false, untrue, or a blatant lie.”
He explained that the court record shows that in Republic v Kwesi Nyantakyi, the High Court struck out the charges on two occasions after the prosecution failed to call witnesses, including investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
According to Nyantakyi, for more than five years Anas did not present himself to testify as a prosecution witness. He referenced a public statement made by Anas on November 8, 2022, in which he said he “may choose to testify as a prosecution witness or not.”
Nyantakyi criticised what he described as a contradiction in Tiger Eye PI’s position, arguing that it was dishonest to now claim the Attorney General withdrew the case when, in his view, the court had already struck it out due to the prosecution’s failure to proceed.
He also stressed that Tiger Eye PI was neither a complainant nor a witness in the criminal case brought by the state against him, and said his comments during the January 6, 2026 JoyNews interview had “nothing to do with Tiger Eye PI.”
Addressing claims attributed to Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Nyantakyi maintained that Anas “made no reference (directly or indirectly) to any demonstrable effort by me (current or in the past) to peddle misinformation and disinformation about the ‘cut-and-paste’ sham called Number 12.”
The former CAF 1st Vice President also dismissed assertions that he suggested a personal legal battle between himself and Anas, describing that portion of the Tiger Eye PI statement as “a blatant falsehood.”
“In the entire interview on JoyNews, I never created any impression that Anas Aremeyaw Anas had a personal legal battle against me. I referred only to the criminal case against me intitule The Republic v Kwesi Nyantakyi,” he stated, questioning how “the criminal case suddenly metamorphosed into a civil case without any legal basis.”
Nyantakyi further accused Anas of refusing to testify in court, insisting that the Republic had legal options to compel his appearance.
“After refusing to testify in court and boasting about the said refusal, the Republic could have compelled Anas to testify through the issue of a subpoena against him,” he stated
Turning to allegations of threats, Nyantakyi flatly denied ever threatening Anas or any of his associates.
“For the records, I have never threatened anybody, dead or alive, including the slain colleague of Anas Aremeyaw Anas. He has told this lie for more than six (6) years,” Nyantakyi said, challenging Anas to submit evidence to the police “and stop peddling falsehood.”
In one of the strongest passages of the statement, Nyantakyi criticised what he described as Anas’s posture above the law, arguing that “a prosecution witness in a criminal case cannot place himself above the law and still insist on the illegal stance.”
“As a conman and ‘investigative terrorist’ that he is, he considers himself a demigod who should be placed above the law,” Nyantakyi added.
“It is a matter of public record that, in The Republic v Kwesi Nyantakyi, the High Court struck out the charges twice after the Republic failed to present witnesses (including Anas) in prosecuting the case,” Nyantakyi said.
According to him, Anas’s continued public commentary reveals “an unknown personal agenda of hatred against me,” which he said “has nothing to do with the public interest.”
He concluded by clarifying that while he referenced the criminal case in his January 6 interview, “the civil cases against Anas haven’t been abandoned,” and dismissed the final portions of the Tiger Eye PI statement as “needless opinions… of no interest to me.”