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On Thursday, The Gambia Football Association, GFA, announced it will rectify the constitution as soon as possible to avoid too much delay of the upcoming March 30, 2013 GFA congress.
The FA’s normalisation committee spokesperson Alhagie O.B. Conateh fall-short
of giving a definite date to correct the erroneous constitution, but said there
are possibilities the elective-congress of the GFA will miss the March 30
schedule as time is needed to re-work on the constitution.
Mr Conateh and his cohorts presided over a largely “flawed” Constitutional-adoptive-Congress
on Dec. 12, 2013, which has since been rejected by football’s world governing
body, FIFA.
FIFA called the congress “biased” and “unrealistic” and demand that
the GFA interpret its statutes and ensure that only clubs that had played
regular football under the GFA Competitions can participate in a GFA General
Assembly.
The Zurich-based FIFA also ask the GFA to hold another congress and
ensure the so-called international standard draft constitution is re-examined
and adopted.
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In similar fashion, the normalisation committee said it turn down
FIFA’s offer to extend their mandate a second time because they want to rest.
The committee’s initial six months mandate which ended in September
2012 was extended by FIFA to March 2013, but another attempt by the
Zurich-based FIFA has been rejected.
“FIFA requested for the extension of our mandate in the helm of the
normalisation process, but we rejected the request,” Conateh, the GFA’s
committee vice chairman said during a Feb. 21 press conference held at football
house in Kanifing.
Criticism
“We promise them of accomplishing our duty sooner rather than later so
that we can hand over everything to a newly-elected GFA body,” Conateh said.
“We want to rest.”
The GFA normalisation committee, which replaced the ousted executive committee
of Seedy M.B. Kinteh, has come under a lot of criticism since March 2012 -
presiding over violent league and non-league matches, a fruitless AFCON 2013
qualifying campaign, and a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier already in a state of
jeopardy.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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