SWAL Condemns LFA!

 
Roland M. Mulbah of  www.liberiansoccer..com
has been banned from entering LFA facilities

The Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL) has condemned the action taken by the Liberia Football Association (LFA) to ban one of its members from entering its facilities around the country.

SWAL says the decision taken by the football house is unacceptable anywhere around the world and as such should not be applicable in Liberia especially where the sporting press is instrumental in providing publicity for the national league and other activities.

According to SWAL, if the LFA or any of its members have personal problem with journalist Roland M. Mulbah of the www.liberiansoccer..com, Champions Sports and Sportsday respectively, it could be handle by other means rather than issuing ban on the sports journalist from entering the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) and all its facilities, which are public.

 According to a press release signed by its Secretary General, Mr. D. Webster Cassell, SWAL sees the decision as an affront to all sports writers who have worked tirelessly in ensuring that football in Liberia gets the widest media coverage.

The Association thinks the situation needed a more mature approach other than banning the journalist from LFA premises.

SWAL views the LFA decision as a violation of Article-13(a) of the Liberian Constitution which states that every person lawfully within the republic shall have the right to move freely throughout Liberia.

 SWAL is therefore calling on the hierarchy of the LFA to immediately reverse its decision without delay.

The Cllr. Sombo Izetta Wesley led leadership of the LFA has been condemned in many quarters for her inability to improve the beautiful game in the West African country that has the record as the first African Country to produce World and European best in the form of King George Oppong Manneh Weah.

The leadership is on record for being the only football house in the entire world without a website, a Public Relations Officer (PRO) as well as the only league in the world without sponsor.

Quite recently in Monrovia, veteran Liberia sports administrator, Josiah N. Johnson, alias JNJ called on the entire leadership of the LFA to step down so an interim leadership can be form to improve football in Liberia before the March, 2010 election.

JNJ, as he is widely called, accused the current leadership, headed by administratively erratic and lackluster Cllr. Wesley of lacking the administrative sense of running football in Liberia.

The leadership has been involved in several bogus activities including the missing of more than US$53,000.00 from the LFA Account where all blames went on the Treasurer, Mr. J. Nimely Toe, who has been dismissed from his post as Treasurer of the local football house.

The story was carried by several media institutions including websites, but the LFA chose to suspend www.liberiansoccer..com, Champions Sports and Sportsday Senior Reporter, Mr. Roland M. Mulbah for what still remain ambiguous.