By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson)
Delegates comprising of various members of the football family at the Sierra Leone Football Association’s extra ordinary congress held on Saturday February 1, in the Eastern city of Kenema has approved and voted for various nominees into the Appeal, Disciplinary and Elective committeesof the Local football federation.
Remarkably, football stakeholders in the country have demonstrated their willingness to put aside the long standing wrangling in the activities of football in the country as 27 delegates’ favored the nominated persons and they (delegates) duly elected them as opposed to 11 delegates that voted against the appointees.
This is the first time members are been appointed to serve in the said committees. All elected officials are expected to server as members of the tri-committees where they have been appointed and elected to serve ranging from looking at complaints from and among members of the football family, looking at appeals and conducting elections for new leadership of the SLFA when the term of a leader elapses.
Saturday’s election of nominated persons to serve in the tri-committees has been seen by football stakeholders as a latest development in the country’s football which has already been recorded into the history books of football by followers of the popular sport.
Speaking to this writer, Christopher Kamara, the secretary of the local FA said that: “work has just started, the road to elective congress is sure, shortly, I will send congratulation messages to all the elected members into the three committees and will ask them to reply the football federation promptly by a way of confirming their acceptance into the various committees where they have been strategically elected into to serve the football family.
“We will then begin work with them, theywill be trained in due course by the FA and FIFA to prepare them the best way to perform their roles accordingly in the dispensation of their duties as enshrined in the constitution of the federation, he adds.
Like the Congress held in Port Loko last month where various delegates converged to adopt the revised SLFA Statute and the FIFA Code of Ethics on the 6 and 7th December, the extra ordinary congress in Kenema city all ended successfully, despite a minute number of stakeholders are of the view that the processes are influenced by the current President of the Sierra Leone Football Association who is eyeing a re-election as the Federation’swhich is unfair according to them and that they will soon take legal actions to seek redress.
On the side of the FA, they have denied the acquisition and have voiced that all and sundry that feels aggrieved in one way or the other should write officially to the FA Secretary who will inform the Disciplinary committee for their cases to be addressed promptly and amicably as a football family.
From a broader perspective and to compare the state of Football in the country 7 years ago to present day, the growth of football has however been slow.
This according to some stakeholders is as a result of self-centeredness on the leadership of the FA and that they are posed to make a drastic change at the next elective congress while the current FA President has linked the slow growth of football in the country to have been powered by the negative actions of some football stakeholders who thinks she had created the current and emerging challenges in the game.
“Our challenges in football are generational and I am trying to fix them soonest, this is why all of you should come on board with pure hearts and see our football problems fixed” she said in front of the country’s minister of sports, a FIFA representative, observers, Journalists and delegates at the Albertson hall in Kenema city during her presentation at the recent SLFA Extra ordinary congress.
However, on the 17 and 18 April this year, delegates will meet in the Northern City of Makeni for the Elections.
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