The unfortunate knife-stabbing incident at the Nsuatreman-Asante Kotoko Ghana Premier League match which led to the killing of Yaw Frimpong alias Nana Pooley, a Kotoko fan, has overcovered serious matters of insecurity at our match venues.

Almost all league centres in Ghana have suitability and security problems which endanger the lives of fans who go there. The security concerns are known to stakeholders of the game especially the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Ghana Police Service.

They all know except that they either gloss over the issues or give a human-face to problems that should be eliminated with decisive actions. Fans have died and others maimed with private and state properties destroyed.

Badly sited venues: hostile, often needless intimidation, gross fan misbehaviour often orchestrated and covertly endorsed by club operatives are but a few of the things that undermine security at league centres thereby questioning the suitability of such places.

If the Sports and Recreation Minister, Kofi Adams has directed the Ministry’s Chief Director to liaise with the GFA to re-examine the state and suitability of league venues nationwide, it is a good call. The two parties are to agree on which venues meet the minimum standard per the regulations. That is where I have fears.

Fears of compromise and certifying yet again the dirty, sometimes even absent washrooms, bushy, forest-like venues that must not host human beings if we were playing professional, premier league football. For example, Dawu, Dormaa, Berekum, Nsuatre, and Tuba should not be considered decent grounds for the topflight league.

Let's welcome Kofi Adams’s call for a reassessment of the suitability of our league centres. Perhaps it his part of the government’s plan to reset our Ghana football. I hope that the re-examination would be done devoid of the complicity.

If at the end of the re-assessment it would mean that only six or seven venues would meet the best standard, so be it. The government must insist on that. That would be better than certifying jungles as football venues and endangering human lives.