Stern warning to sports associations for submission of activity report

Barely a week after the National Sports Council sent a notice to all registered sporting associations with the Council to submit their activity reports by March 2013, MarketPlace Business newspaper sports desk reporter spoke with the Council’s executive secretary Mamodou Max Jallow on what will be the stance of the NSC if any association should fail to meet the deadline given by the council.

NSC Executive Secretary Mamodou Max Jallow,

Mr Max says he is not expecting any association to fail in meeting the deadline of submitting their report, which includes their financial statements and plan of activities for 2013.

The NSC executive secretary, who said the Council is in the train of modernizing Gambian sport, also stated: “We have seen all government institutions are audited at the end of each year for transparency reasons.

“In our case we are not auditing them; all we are asking them to do is to present their activity reports to the NSC for us to know what they have done in the course of the year. Without this we cannot know what they are doing and that is not good, since we want to transform the country’s sport to a high standard one.”

Max Jallow reiterates his call on all the associations to submit their plan of activity for 2013 by March so the NSC would know when and where to intervene in their affairs whenever the need arises.

He quoted the Gambia Volleyball Association (GVA) as an example, saying they have already qualified for the African Volleyball Championship in Tunisia in March this year.

However, he advises the GVA to start preparations earlier and not to wait till the last minutes and start putting pressure on the NSC for assistance.

According to Max, the NSC “will not give aid” to any association that has not submitted what is required of it.

Under this new policy of yearly activity report submission, the NSC also insists all sports associations in the country must get international travelling clearance from the NSC before leaving the country, for their own security.

This is a government plan put in place by the NSC, Max Jallow noted, saying associations that abide by the rules should expect something good from government to boost their sporting efforts.

“We want to support all the associations affiliated to the NSC like the GFA does for the national league clubs every year,” the NSC executive secretary declared.

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“The NSC will not give aid to any association that has not submitted what is required of it.”