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Ghana have dissolved their football association over allegation of corruption.
This follows an undercover investigation by controversial journalist Anas Aremayaw Anas who raised questions about the nature of football in Africa.
His documentary, entitled When Greed and Corruption Become the Norm, was was screened for Ghana President and the public.
It shows more than 100 football officials - most of them West African referees - receiving cash gifts, despite Fifa rules expressly forbidding it.
Already the GFA boss and some members are under investigation for fraudulently using Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo's name.
GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi himself was secretly filmed in the documentary receiving $65,000 cash gift from an undercover reporter who pretended to be a businessman interested in investing in Ghana football.
The tv documentary took the Ghanaian investigative Journalist Anas two years to produce.
Mr Nyantakyi is the current vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and also a Fifa Executive Committee member.
He has refused to comment on the allegations. Both fifa and CAF are also yet to react to the latest development by Ghana.
Among those caught on camera was Kenyan referee Adel Range Marwa, bound for the World Cup in Russia until he resigned after he was filmed receiving a $600 "gift".
Picture: Kwesi Nyantakyi.
Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Ghana's information minister, said the government had "decided to take immediate steps to have the Ghana Football Association dissolved.
He said interim measures to govern Ghanaian football would be announced soon, pending the formation of a new association.
Since taking charge of the GFA, Mr Nyantakyi has made tackling corruption a major part of his message.
However, the undercover film shows him apparently placing the $65,000 "shopping money" into a black plastic bag. He is under investigation for fraudulently using Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo's name - by order of the president himself.
The filmmaker's team had invited Mr Nyantakyi to a luxury hotel in the Middle East with the promise of meeting a wealthy businessman they said was interested in a sponsorship deal with the GFA.
In the film, Mr Nyantakyi went on to both negotiate and write up the sponsorship deal on behalf of the GFA, which could have allowed a cut to go to a company he owned.
Correspondents say that had the fictitious deal gone ahead, he could potentially have made $4.5m from the diversion of funds.
