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| Prof. Ephraim Angwafor |
The event which was plagued by heated arguments, complaints and violent exchanges took place at Capitol Hotel, Buea, chaired by member of the Fecafoot Normalization Committee, Professor Ephraim Ndeh Ngwafor.
It should be recalled that following the adoption of the Fecafoot General Rules on 2nd June 2015, by the 2009 General Assembly, divisional and regional leagues had to also successively adopt their by-laws.
However, no such adoption of texts ever took place at the divisional level in the SW region. Many club presidents also complained that no copy of the general Fecafoot statutes was ever sent to them to enable them for scrutiny ahead of the adoption of regional bye-laws.
The representative of the Normalization Committee Prof. Ngwafor said he was surprised to learn that club presidents had not received the statutes for review at least one week to the adoption exercise, as article 27 of the general statutes requires.
Prof. Ngwafor regretted that it was rather the divisional text that was sent to the SW for review instead of the regional texts.
In the end, eight (8) club presidents voted against the adoption of the divisional texts, while eleven (11) supported the adoption. As for the adoption of the regional texts, 15 club presidents voted for adoption while three presidents voted against. There was one blank ballot.
Despite the adoption nation-wide of the statutes, it is still feared that the exercise may be cancelled again this because of the petition filed with the Conciliation and Arbitration Chamber of the Cameroon National Olympic Committee, by some stakeholders calling for annulment of the whole process.
It should be noted that only the South West and Littoral were still to adopt the statutes as of last week.
Reactions:
The adoption is a farce
- Barrister Agbor Balla, President of Buea FC.
The adoption was an exercise in futility; it was a farce in the sense that the text wasn’t respected to the letter. Article 27 which states that the draft should be sent to the region for scrutiny at least seven days before the adoption, was not respected. They brought the text in the hall that same morning for people to read and adopt. Besides, the text was fraught with grammatical errors which cast doubts on the seriousness of the process. It is very regrettable for Cameroon Football. They should not forget that anything that is built on sinking sand will collapse before long.
All’s well that ends well
- Prof. Ephraim Angwafor, Normalisation Committee Rep.
All’s well that ends well. Despite the difficulties with arguments and counter arguments from both sides, the good news is that we finally adopted the text. We made a mistake by sending instead the text concerning the divisions rather than that for the regions. So the electors got the wrong text. It was only this morning that they could get the text on the regions. We hope they can bear with us. We must now work very hard to ensure that the elections in August are well organized. To that effect, we will publish the candidates’ list a week before the elections so that any petitions should be addressed on time.
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