Fecafoot:

Tombi a Roko dismantles Owona’s networks

- He has suspend the interim general coordinator of national teams who was appointed by normalization president Joseph Owona

By Mercy Neba in Yaounde

Mr. OyonoAfane Pierre Clavier was suspended last Friday 2 October, following a session of the emergency committee of Fecafoot chaired by newly elected President Tombi à RokoSidiki

The decision came barely two days after Tombi à Roko took over command of the football house on Wednesday 30 September 2015.

According to a release posted on Fecafoot’s website-fecafoot-officiel.org, the emergency committee “after interrogating Mr. OyonoAfane on his management of the national teams, has decided to suspend the latter until further notice.”

                The coordination of national teams will now be assured by Mrs. NtuiAshu Sarah Nkongho, who until now was Mr. Afane’s assistant, the release said.

                Mr. AfaneOyono was appointed as the interim coordinator of national selections by the president of the Fecafoot normalization committee on 9 October 2014. Before his appointment he was already serving as administrative director of national selections since September 2014.

                Severally dismissed as lazy, incompetent and solitary in his work approach, AfaneOyono’s suspension could be expected, especially giving that the Tombi administration would not want to be linked with failure.

                Apart from the suspension, Afane’s management of funds allocated to the national teams by government will also be probed. An ad hoc committee has been created to look into his financial records and report to the Fecafoot president. Members of the ad hoc committee include Hon. Luc Koa as president, EssombaEyenga and Charles Nguini as members and Gilles AbenaNguini as rapporteur.

                Meanwhile, the emergency committee of Fecafoot has also seized the minister of Finance through his colleague of sport and physical education, to appoint a “regisseur” to handle expenditures engaged by the general coordinator of national teams.

                The Median gathered that since becoming the general coordinator on 9 October 2014, AfaneOyono has been accused of poor, amateurish management of funds. He is also said to have embroiled himself in corrupt practices and misappropriation.

                Throughout his tenure there were always disagreements over hotel bills during various outings of the national teams, delays in procuring visas, abandonment of players out of the country and inadequate provision of logistics for teams on assignment. His suspension was therefore a foregone conclusion to all these short comings.