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| “Good
governance has become more and more important and as you know FIFA has
undertaken big internal changes to meet the challenges,” said FIFA, which has
in the recent past been tainted by allegations of “corruption”. |
Football’s
world governing body, FIFA, has called on stakeholders in Banjul to respect the
Normalisation Committee’s (NC) decision to ban certain members of the former Gambia FA executive committee.
On
July 24, FIFA acknowledged receipt of documents from the Gambia Football
Federation (GFF) Disciplinary Committee in relation to the on-going electoral
process.
Last
week, the NC issued a five-year ban on two candidates (former FA President
Seedy Kinteh and Vice President Adama Halla Samba) and the entire former
executive committee from running for elected office following allegations of
“financial misuse” and “maladministration”.
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| Ex-FA President Kinteh is banned |
We
understand that GFA organs had sanctioned some officials due to their
responsibilities in the deplorable situation of the GFA when you took over such
a diversion of FIFA money meant for
football development to personal favours or the unaccountability of supposes
expenses, according to a letter from FIFA given to the media by the NC.
“We
also remember your initial difficulties to get some services from providers
because of outstanding debts and your worries about the Social Security of the
GFA staff who had not been paid contrary to what was pretended,” added the
letter signed by FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke.
“Good
governance has become more and more important and as you know FIFA has
undertaken big internal changes to meet the challenges,” said FIFA, which has
in the recent past been tainted by allegations of “corruption”.
The
same is expected from member associations and as mentioned during the last FIFA
congress held in Mauritius, stricter rules will be gradually implemented in
order for the football family to be more and more transparent in its management,
the Zurich-based FIFA said.
It
said Primo Corvaro and Prosper Abega will attend the upcoming elections as FIFA
observers and CAF observers – whose itineraries will be communicated
separately.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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- The Voice Newspaper's Omar Bah contributed to this story from Kanifing
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