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The ‘Bogus’ Congress
Sunday, August 26, 2007
The Gambia Sports Journalist Association recently embarked on a bogus congress and there was no real or genuine change of baton.
Knowing that some of the brains were performing national duties in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where an Under-17 Peace tournament was being hosted, the then President Namory Trawally backtracked the agreed date of August 24 just to suit his and his comrades’ taste.
We know who is who in Gambian sports journalism and so we cannot have incompetence reign over us. The maslah syndrome which has slaughtered Gambian sports, leaving many to reflect back with bitter regret will not be condoned by us anymore. Gambian sports administrators in the past chose to abandon things for others simply because they felt bad about certain rulings or actions, and later looked back with regret and I don’t want to be one of those.
It was a pure cowardly congress and associating with this so-called executive will translate into associating with a bunch of loose canons.
It’s surprising to note that those occupying the helm of leadership in the association are those who hardly attend sports gathering. They are people who manifested their “no interest” attitude to sports and yet, want to lead the sports journalists.
In our one-to-one discussions, executive members had always maintained that our main constraint as an association is lack of competent secretaries. They claimed the secretaries cannot write simple reports and are very weak in correspondence. So how can we achieve progress if the same faces are maintained in a regime that is simply characterised by backwardness. The current executive is far from being legitimate and until a fresh congress is conducted there exists no legally elected executive committee.
Author: Written by Benjamin Wally Joof
Source: The Daily Observer Newspaper
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