FECAFOOT:

Normalization Committee’s Mandate to be Extended

As the second mandate of the caretaker committee of the Cameroon Football Federation ends this 31st August 2018, it is likely the mandate will be extended for another six months by FIFA. The Normalization committee’s first mandate had in February this year been extended by six months.

            Dieudonne Happi and the other members of the committee were tasked to draft new statutes for the federation and also organize elections to put in place new executive bureaux to man the affairs of the federation. But, while the statutes are ready, the elections to put in place the new bureaux could not be organized. This was perhaps because the committee had to wait for the laws governing sports in the country to be reviewed to tie with FIFA laws, as was ordered by FIFA.

            So, the elections that were initially billed for June 23 to August 31, 2018, at the divisional, Regional and National levels, did not take place. They were postponed to a later date.

            That is why it is expected that the normalization committee’s mandate is likely to be extended by another six months.

            This is so because the FIFA’s Manager for Africa and the Carribeans, Jerome Omgba, had earlier announced in February that the Normalization Committee will manage Fecafoot’s affairs for as long as the crisis persists, and until a new bureau is put in place.

            It is left to be known whether the current composition of the Normalization Committee will be maintained or whether it will be changed and for how long the new mandate will be.