Concord Times (Freetown)
Sahr Morris Jr.
9 July 2008
Director of Sports, Sadiu Mansaray Tuesday told Concord Sports that the consultative meeting with football stakeholders will focus mainly on issues pertaining to the forthcoming Football Association elective congress.
According to Mansaray, the meeting which was called by the Ministry of Education Youth and Sports aims at discussing misunderstood issues in the football family with football stakeholders.
"We are strictly calling on delegates to participate in the meeting because they are the ones that will be voting in the congress, and they are the ones we must address," he urged.
The Director of Sports also noted that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports is concerned about the ongoing divisive campaigns going on among football stakeholders saying such atmosphere is considered by the ministry as a recipe for chaos which may not be good for the promotion, development and control of sports in the country.
However, a member of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) executive, Alhaji Unisa Alim Sesay aka Awoko said though the ministry's call for a consultative forum is a bold step, it was too late.
"Let the ministry try and resuscitate the National Sports Council. If this has been done all these while, such problem will not exist in our football or sports," he opined.
FC Kallon's Team Manager, Tundee Scott told Concord Sports that this move for a forum was earlier taken by the national team captain, Mohamed Kallon but it was not taken seriously.
"Mohamed Kallon first introduced such meeting but people did not take it seriously. Now we are going back to where we came from. I hope it will be a positive meeting," Scott said.
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