Fecafoot General Assembly:

Biya orders belligerents to drop the hatchet, adopt statutes
On the instructions of President Paul Biya and following secret meetings between the warring parties at the Prime Minister’s Office earlier, a consensus was reached at the extra-ordinary session of Fecafoot, paving the way for the final adoption of the statutes of the football association.
    After four hours of deliberations at the Mont FEBE Hotel in Yaounde, the conclave convened on Wednesday 5 August 2015, under the chairmanship of Professor Joseph Owona, President of the Fecafoot Normalization Committee adopted the statutes and the electoral code without much ado.
    By virtue of Article 32(7) of the statutes, the General Assembly established a joint committee comprising some representatives of the two belligerent groups to reflect on contested points of the draft statutes.
    Unlike during the last General Assembly in June this year, and upon the proposal of the joint commission, the statutes was voted by a show of the hand- one man one vote. 97 delegates voted for, 2 voted against, and zero abstention.
In the end the following resolutions were made:
    • The Statutes of FECAFOOT are amended and adopted;
    • The Electoral Code of FECAFOOT are amended and adopted;
    • Article 4 on the special status of regional and departmental leagues is amended.
    At a press conference after the adoption, Prof Joseph Owona thanked the different stakeholders for their understanding, stating that it is a good beginning for Football in Cameroon.

    “I want to congratulate the government and the Court of Arbitration for Sports for their suggestions. The adoption is a good start and I think it is the beginning of the last journey.”
    One of the major innovations taken during the adoption process was the fact that the number of vice presidents of the federation will increase from three to five whereby the North West and South West region will unite to present one vice president.
    According to Tafili Magnus from the North West region, the adoption is a step towards the construction of football in Cameroon. “Football has to prevail because the differences that were brought up by the two camps could not take them anywhere and there was need to come back to the table. If all that is proposed is honored, football will take its place in Cameroon”.
    The text was adopted after FIFA warned Cameroon would be suspended if the Normalization Committee does not leave the FECACFOOT house by September ending as stipulated in the extension of the committee’s mandate.
    Following the adoption, the ground work has been laid for divisional and regional elections to be conducted in the days ahead followed by the federation elections by 28 September 2015.
    Concerning the case of the current Secretary General of Fecafoot yunning for the post of national president, he will have to vacate his seat at the moment he sends in his candidature.