Former SWAL
President Lauds MYS & LNOC
A local sports analyst says the judicious intervention in the crisis
probe LFA pending election by both the Ministry of youth and Sports
and the Liberia National Olympic Committee has added a taste of good
leadership, and consequently sends a strong message of bond amongst
sporting institutions in the country.
Mr. Henry Flomo who also a former president of the Sport Writers
Association of Liberia, SWAL, says the move by the two outfits to
prevent crisis in the LFA is highly commendable. He says football as
the leading discipline in the country needs to be far from crisis.
The two local bodies recently met with officials of the Liberia
Football Association at the SKD Sports Complex to discuss the pending
election of the Association. The president of the LNOC, Philipbert
Browne, presided over the meeting.
According to sources from the gathering, the LFA through its president
Cllr. Sombo Izetta Wesley was admonished to uphold the decision of the
LFA Congress to conduct election during the next congress in March of
this year.
In its last sitting in 2009, the congress, which is the highest
decision making body of the LFA concluded on the contentious issue of
election. With this background, the conveners of the meeting had no
alternative but to urge the leadership to abide by the laws of the
entity and hold election on March 20, 2010.
The aggrieved party in the long-standing internal crisis in the
Liberia Football Association had complained the Izetta Wesley led
administration to the MYS and LNOC to intervene in the glaring
undermining of the portion of the agreement reached in Zurich several
months ago between the two sides bordering election.
The Izetta Wesley led administration and some aggrieved stakeholders
of the LFA had a standoff that ended in Zurich at the FIFA
headquarters where several counts were thrashed out including holding
of election immediately at the close of the tenure of Madam Wesley’s
administration.
Though it mandated the LFA through its secretarial to conduct the
election as per the statute of the Association, the former SWAL
president says he worried as to whether has moral to the election.
“Too many times the secretarial has proven to be a willing stooge of
Madam Wesley, thus bringing its credibility to the fold in the coming
election”, Mr. Flomo averred. He said “this is a secretarial that does
not obey no one but the president of the LFA; how can such body be
credible giving that indications are that stills wants to maintain her
job”.
The sport analyst, a former sports news director at the Liberia
Broadcasting System and former Assistant Secretary General of the
Press Union of Liberia says he is further concerned over complains
from the Secretary General of the LFA that he does have a computer to
work with. “Where in this world the Secretary of the national football
body is barricaded from the fast moving world of technology”?
Mr. Flomo says this complain from the LFA Secretary General of not
having access to computer is enough reason the MYS and LNOC to take
entire LFA election process. “Too many credible personalities have
either thrown their weight or are contemplating joining the race for
position in the ensuing election therefore the process needs sacred
guardians”.
He said “in as much as the statue gives the secretarial the leverage
to conduct election, whatever could savage delay and tricks will be
good for the LFA.
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