Thursday, May 8, 2014
The Gambia Sports Minister replaces GFF committee over CAF disqualification.
The Gambia's Minister of
Youth and Sports Alieu K Jammeh has replaced the country's Football
Association committee members following their recent CAF suspension.
Mr. Jammeh citing
powers vested on him by the National Sports Council Act unveiled a
brand new 5-member committee to run the Gambia Football Federation.
The new committee members will replace the old committee members and
they include Lamin Sanneh, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of
Lands and former governor of West Coast Region Ba Jabbi, Famara
Colley, Haddy Sillah and Malick Mbye.
The Sports minister
announced that their “suspension” was due to their inability to
fulfill their duties and obligation, the now former committee were
elected as members of the GFF on July 31st 2013.
CAF recently disqualified
The Gambia FA from participating in all of CAF's competition, in
other words, most competition within Africa for 2 years after being
found guilty of age fraud.
CAF's Executive
Committee imposed the 2-year ban on the Gambia Football Associaiton
from all its competitions after the body was found guilty of using
ineligible players in the African U-20 Championship qualifiers.
Speaking on the suspension, the committee said the decision was in
line with Article 37. p 1 of the regulations of the African U-20
Championship which states that “for any deliberate intention to
foul or cheat in any matter involving the falsification of documents,
the defaulting association shall be suspended for two years from all
of CAF's competitions.
The Gambia U-20 were
disqualified from the competition by the organizing committee for the
African U-20 Championship on April 20 for using five overage players
against Liberia on April 6, 2014. Ali Sowe was one of the concerned
players, his earlier registration with CAF shows he was born on
October 4, 1988, but his recent passport for the ongoing competition
shows his date of birth as June 14, 1994.
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