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Thirty persons, made up of the 23 AFCON 2015 Black Star Players and 7 management members will on Friday March 13, take delivery of their Grand Jeep Cherokee cars from the Tanink Ghana Headquarters, Ghanasportsonline.com can exclusively reveal.

Officials of the car dealing company have been busy in preparations for a grand ceremony at their premises where each member of the 30-man AFCON 2015 runner-up delegation will be expected to be handed keys to the spendy automobiles.

Ghanasportsonline.com has gathered that the thirty recipients have already been notified and all is set for the official handing over ceremony at a yet to be confirmed venue, but sources say the distribution would be done at the Tanink Ghana premises at the Tema Community 12 Industrial Area.

A company source told Ghanasportsonline.com "Everything was set, the cars were already here but we had to complete some mandatory formalizations and that is what kept us long",

"Right now all the beneficiaries have been prompted and made away but since majority of the players are foreign based, we don't they can be present but we have taken measures to hand over the cars to persons they instruct"

Black Stars each received this donation of Jeep Grand Cherokee for their feat in the just ended 2015 African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.

The Black Stars place second in the tournament after losing to Cote D’Ivoire on a 8-9 penalty shootout.

The donation was announced by the Chief Executive Officer of Tanink Ghana Ltd franchise holders of Chrysler, Jeep, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Iveco, etc in Ghana, Mr. Roger Klogo.

The announcement, made some weeks after the AFCON tournament, was met with a huge public outcry, with majority of Ghanaians opposing the gesture and calling it as gratuitous.

But according to Mr. Roger Klogo the donation was a redemption of a long-standing promise made by Tanink Ghana Ltd to the Black Stars.

He said even though the Black Stars failed to perform in Brazil, he was touched by the huge sacrifices the Black Stars made in risking their lives to play in a tournament that no country initially wanted to host due to the Ebola scare - the AFCON 2015 tournament.