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18.05.2005
FECAFOOT and MINSEP Hand in Hand
The two parties have resolved to work together for the development of football in Cameroon.
If we have to go by declarations made yesterday in Yaounde, then the suspicion which hitherto characterised the relationship between the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education (MINSEP) and the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) may be a thing of the past. After a two-hour meeting at the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education, on the initiative of the Minister, Philippe Mbarga Mboa, the two parties promised to sink their differences and work together for the benefit of football in Cameroon.
"We will henceforth manage Cameroon’s football together and in harmony for the satisfaction of Cameroonians. What is important is the result we get. We cannot construct in disorder…", said Philippe Mbarga Mboa to the press. FECAFOOT boss, Iya Mohammed, noted that there is no longer a problem between the Federation and the Sports and Physical Education ministry. "The issue of our rules and regulations have been sorted out", he noted. The football manager added that "significant progress have been made with regards to the bilateral convention, the management of the national team, etc..".
Yesterday’s meeting, which took place in camera in the presence of the close collaborators of Minister Mbarga Mboa and President Iya Mohammed, was holding within a backdrop of general malaise between FECAFOOT and MINSEP. The imbroglio can be traced back to April 24th, 2004. A new executive bureau to manage the affairs of FECAFOOT had to be elected. But on the eve of the D-Day (April 23th), government made a giant stride to bring order into the management of Cameroonian football. The Head of State prescribed the sending of a commission of inquiry to FECAFOOT and a quick review of the statutes of that body. On May 07, 2004, the then Minister of Youth and Sports signed an order creating a commission to review the statutes of FECAFOOT. Its mission was to re-examine the basic texts of the federation so as to ensure that government’s sports policy in the domain of football is implemented. The nine-man commission also had to ensure that the statute and regulations of FECAFOOT are in line with those of the World Football governing body, FIFA, and to make sure that the rules and procedures relating to the choice of officials of the federation guarantees transparency and democracy at the divisional, provincial and national level. The results were handed to the then Minister of Youth and Sports at the end of July 2004 and latter forwarded to FIFA.
On the recommendation of FIFA, a tripartite commission FECAFOOT-FIFA-MINJES, was created to look at the draft texts. The commission met in Zurich on November 5, 2004 and could not reach an agreement. FIFA requested that the federation and the Ministry should return home and settle their differences. The FECAFOOT-MINJES commission then came up with a draft text accepted by the two parties. Last May 7th, 2005 Cameroon football authorities met in a General Assembly and adopted the new text. But officials of the Sports Ministry once more cried foul as the text adopted was different (33 articles changed) from the one drafted by the FECAFOOT-MINJES commission.
Yesterday’s meeting was to enable the two parties arrive at an agreement. The smiles, handshakes and declarations were an indication that all is well; at least for now.
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