Bility Threat To
Football Growth
Musa
Bility at his press conference
Musa Bility will not do so well as President of the Liberia Football
Association (LFA) and the game will perish under him. By not
succeeding at a single and small club like Watanga are just sufficient
reasons about his inability to take the huge challenge Liberian
football is faced with.
Mr. Bility’s big promises made when taking over as Watanga FC are just
history now.
During the last election, his closed buddy Siaka A. Sheriff was
defeated by incumbent LFA President Izetta Wesley. This year, it could
be Mr. Bility’s turn. It will take a terrific performance to oust the
Iron Lady of Liberian football. She has the experience, contacts and
wherewithal to outclass him in the process.
The current LFA President has already made name for herself as the
first female president of a national association. She has been
rewarded with places on the FIFA Committee on Women’s Football and
that of the Women’s World Cup as well as the position of Vice
President of the West African Football Union (WAFU). She is arguably
the best candidate of the two- having being more development oriented
since taking over the mantle of authority in Liberian football. For
the case of Mr. Bility, he has no records to show the marks he has
made in football leadership.
Izetta has been succeeding in her LFA sojourn with her collaboration
of able lieutenants like Beauford O. Weeks, D. Sheba Browne, Daniel C.
Forkpa, Cllr. Theophilus Gould Her team is also is solid with Ben
Fredericks, Yanqoui Borsay, Benedict Yarsiah and Ebenezer Barclay all
executing major functions. The addition of Garmondeh Karnga and Joseph
Farkollie will ease the burden off the Secretariat as the sole
administrator of the LFA activities.
She may have lost Pennoh Bestman and Adolph Lawrence to the Bility
camp, but the coming of Mr. Karnga has seen the emergence of a man
who, being an employer himself, will have sufficient time to perform
and run the secretariat effectively.
Despite defecting to the Bility camp, both Bestman and Lawrence are
not even guaranteed a place in the upcoming leadership line-up that
the stakeholders are about to select through the voting process.
Unless voters make sound decisions by keeping Cllr. Wesley and weeding
out then bad fruits in the likes of Bility, Bestman and Lawrence, the
LFA will remain a place of confusion, divisions and rivalries. But a
decision in the right direction will see tranquility and peaceful
coexistence in the football house.
Mr. Farkollie’s possible victory is a massive boost to the LFA as he
is among the finest football administrators in the country.
Cllr. Wesley may have endured four terrible years as a result of
opposition from backers of Sheriff and subsequently Bility, one factor
that is sure to play a part is her move for second term is her ability
to resist all the odds and stay the course. If the stakeholders can
realize Mr. Bility won’t perform, then Cllr. Wesley is on the way
again of becoming President of the LFA.
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