No Positions For Losers
-Barclay

Watanga FC Vice President Andy Quamie

By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.

The President of the division two side Diamond FC has reiterated his disapproval to a suggestion made by Watanga FC Vice President Andy Quamie for a conference that would include both losers and winners of the March 18, 2006 elections of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) that was held on the campus of the Booker Washington Institute (BWI) in Kakata, Margibi County.

According to Mr. Ebenezer Barclay, the LFA does not have positions reserved for losers.

He declared to Mr. Quamie that it is only national government that could accommodate politicians with positions such as Ministers and Advisors.

"The best thing Mr. Quamie can do is to talk to the loser and his agents of confusion on the Executive Committee to overcome their defeat from the Kakata Congress and work for the Liberian people in seeing to it that our national teams get prepared in representing the nation in future football tournaments," said Barclay.

The comments by the Diamond FC boss follows another failure by the LFA Executive Committee members to endorse another person in John Rufus Ballah that was nominated by the LFA President, Cllr. Sombo Izetta Wesley for the post of Secretary-General after the previous rejection of Yanqueh S. Borsay and Malcolm Peegee Wright.

He noted, "At one point in time, it is proven that these detractors are not reading the statutes that govern the LFA. For the public's consumption, I will quote the article that has to do with the appointment of the General Secretary.

"Article 10 Section 10.1 reads: The General Secretary shall be appointed or dismissed by the Executive Committee on proposal of the President."

He sees the decision taken by the stakeholders at the just-ended Kakata Congress to elect officials of the LFA to have been done in good faith, but to the contrary, Barclay said this has been proven wrong.

He believes that those on the Executive Committee of the LFA ought to be responsible people. "But to the contrary, it seems to be that ill-responsible people have been planted among the Executive Committee members to cause confusion and to undermine the development of football in this country."

Mr. Barclay has called on all stakeholders to get in involved by rescuing the situation before it gets out of hand.