4 senior GFA staff may get the sack

Four senior staff at The Gambia Football Association (GFA) could be the next to lose their jobs in the ongoing changes at the GFA under the current Normalisation Committee, MarketPlace Business Newspaper has learn  the information.

The Committee in its meeting on August 7th, 2012had suggested that some senior staff have not been fully cooperative with it, and have not shown commitment to the normalisation process, an undisclosed source told this reporter. The report further revealed that the Committee at that meeting endorsed that the senior staff namely; Abdou Salam Jammeh, Acting secretary general; Kemo Ceesay, accountant; Terema Dahaba, director technical training centre; and Kebba Ceesay, assistant technical director, have been found wanting in their performances and have not demonstrated loyalty and support to the Committee in its work of normalising the structure at the GFA.

The report added that the Committee said that the senior staff have shown disloyalty by aligning themselves to the views and strategies of the former executive, thus consistently frustrating the efforts of the Committee in ways they implement policies and decisions. The source further revealed that the Committee concluded that it would be impossible to effectively normalise as it is required in its mandate unless specific measures are taken, adding that the Committee unanimously agreed and resolved to take immediate action to avert another crisis.

The source said it was resolved; to send the senior staff in question for a period of three months leave, request the Ministry of Youth and Sports to second highly qualified persons to replace the staff proceeding on leave with names provisionally agreed as; Marcel Mendy, secretary general; Ebou Secka, Assistant secretary general; Ismaila Njie, accountant. “The committee also resolved that the GFA recruit a qualified person with management and marketing skills to head the Technical Training Centre. It was also resolved at the meeting that the Ministry should be urged to merge the Gambia for Gold and GFA Marketing Committee,” the report added.

The meeting, according to our source, laid emphasis on the need for action to be taken to implement these decisions immediately so that the normalisation process can continue in an atmosphere of serenity and confidence. The possible extension of the mandate of the Normalisation Committee also formed part of the agenda of that meeting.