Bell, 4 others write to FIFA to investigate FECAFOOT

Sepp Blatter, the president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and peers of the Executive Committee will talk about Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) on 19 December 2014. It will be during an Executive Committee meeting scheduled in Morocco on the sidelines of the World Club Cup.

The Executive Committee will decide its position about three weeks after the decision taken by the Emergency Committee to suspend the electoral process of FECAFOOT and therefore extend for three months the mandate of the Standards Committee that manages the federation since July 2013. The decision of the Emergency Committee could be confirmed or reviewed on 19 December by the world football's governing body.

Meanwhile, the five candidates in the presidential election recalibrated to FECAFOOT, wrote to Fifa, specifically the Secretary General Jerome Valcke complaining about their disagreement with the manner in which the Standards Committee headed by Joseph Owona, organizes the elections.

From the outset of this correspondence, the signatories Joseph Antoine Bell, Robert Atha, Robert Pene, Brigitte Mebande and Jules Nyongha welcomed the decision by FIFA on Friday 28 November, to suspend the electoral process.

Then the 5 candidates who were recalibrated want to make known to the boss of FIFA administration that the process launched at the Fécafoot since October 2014 was marred by blatant gerrymandering of the electoral roll and recurrent cheating of all kind during the elections in the departmental and regional leagues.

Joseph Antoine Bell and company have also raised the case against Tombi A Roko, candidate for President of FECAFOOT, whereas, according to the authors of the letter, he is the hub of the organization of elections through its Secretary General of FECAFOOT. "On a moral and ethical level, the SG Candidacy of FECAFOOT, while it is akin to insider trading, is the main reason for the blockage of the electoral process and popular discontent," indicated Five recalibrated candidates. "Supporters of behaviors of Standards Committee and their sense of injustice can completely revive including violent recriminations that could undermine social peace and stability of state institutions."

The opponents of Tombi A Roko offer to Jerome Valck, preferably in December 2014, to set up a commission of inquiry in Cameroon for a meeting with all stakeholders in conflict over the electoral process.

Finally, Bell and Co. no longer wish to see in Cameroon, observers from Fifa, supporters of one camp in the battle for control of FECAFOOT.

This correspondence falls on Valck's table when Tombi A Roko is at the headquarters of FIFA for a week.

So the battle backstage is waiting for a new election timetable to be fixed no later than February 28, 2014 by the FECAFOOT Standards Committee.