All along, I have villified our sports minister in this blog because I believe he should no better than to meddle in local football when FIFA specifically warns agaisnt any government interefering in football. AND also because I just don't like politicans.
However, sometimes I feel that the minister is doing what any sensible government should do. I mean, the KFF officials have been tormenting our football for decades and its a good thing to try and stop this. Perhaps the minister is the champion we've been waiting for to save our football. In theory, he'd come in, rid us of the poisonous elements in KFF and then remove all government influence in football and voila! Our favorite game would prosper. Perhaps our good minister had this in mind. The sad fact is that his actions just drove us deeper into the mud that we're stuck in right now.
Recently, he held a meeting with the CAF president Issa Hayatou and invited CAF officials to come hold talks in kenya to try and resolve our issues. Rumour has it that the talks are already bearing fruit. This action makes me think that perhaps Kamanda does have our interests at heart. If that is the case, kudos to him. Thank you, honorable minister.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Another look at Hon. Kamanda
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Having jusr read Foul (which someone should refer to the Sports Minister, one begins to understand the stalemate. FIFA wants a pliant comittee (it can manipulate with allownaces) and the allowances, perks, & trips that soccer officials get are too irresistible to walk away from. The books also points out Blatter has won re-elections by persuading African countries NOT to vote for Issa Hayatou (which is perhaps why Kamanda is talking to him).
wow...this is intriguing and so very political.
Post a Comment