ROC REJECT GFA CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDATION AND DEMAND FOR CONGRESS

The members of the Regional Organizing Committee (ROC) including Chairman and Secretary Generals from all the six administrative regions in the country has issued a joint statement signed rejecting to attend the proposed GFA validation of constitution to be held soon and demand for delegates to go for congress on the subject matter.

It could be recalled that some time last week the GFA normalization committee has issue a press release to copy to the stakeholders in sports, the top government offices, and to the media on the issue of validated the GFA constitution following the visit of two member FIFA delegate to The Gambia to see for themselves the constitution governing Gambian football under the normalization committee during which some sections of the constitution was rebuff by the FIFA delegates.

Below is the full text of the letter:

Following the receipt of your invitation notice to the validation of the draft GFA Constitution, we hereby inform you that we the undersigned names resolved not to attend the said validation meeting based on the following reasons:

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.     That there has never been any instance in the history of football in this country that a draft constitution is subjected to a validation using this proposed format. What we know is constitutions are ratified and adopted by congress.

       

  That we are not aware of the existence of any football league associations in the regions. What we have are football league clubs of district status existing in all the regions.

   That we shall never settle on anything other than going to congress of delegates  (the Supreme Authority) to decide that fate of the draft constitution as in line with standard procedure and practice.

   That it is absurd to provide room for delegate of the so-called “Officially Recognised Nawettan Centre” to the General Assembly. Our questions to that are:  Where are those recognized Nawettan Centres? And when and where are they officially recognized? And who recognized them? As far as we are concern, associating them with representative status in national football administration should be a national consensus.

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I  It is our belief as regions that until positive steps are directed towards issues on the table, our suspicion rate for manipulation and foul play will remain eminent.

While we assure you our continuous collaboration, we remain yours in football. The release concluded.