If elected, Fecafoot will contribute to build infrastructure- Tombi

The lone candidate retained for Fecafoot elections on November 20, Tombi A Roko Sidiki has said if elected, Fecafoot will contribute to build infrastructure to vulgarise the practice of football in Cameroon.

He made the statement to the press as he presented his manifesto at Hotel La Fallaise in Yaoundé on November 21.

“Cameroon has a vast football development programme and Fecafoot needs to help the government to develop the infrastructure”, he said.

Tombi who wants to use the experience gathered since 1978 to ameliorate football management in Cameroon in his 11 point programme identifies areas in Bamenda, Nkongsamba, Bafia, Sangmelima among others where football play grounds have to be constructed.

He narrated a story of how SuperSport turned down the sponsorship of the Cameroon League because it would be difficult to film a dusty playground. There are also plans to construct a three star hotel at the Fecafoot Technical Centre in Odza with a swimming pool, a medical centre and pitches for beach soccer and futsal football.

Besides, the Fecafoot headquarters would be completed and regional headquarters constructed and refurbished, he said.

The present Secretary General of Fecafoot says he wants to ameliorate the finances of the federation by 25 percent, from FCFA 1 billion per year to about 2 billion and reorganise the Administrative and finance department by creating Finance and accounting departments, administrative department consisting of staff and protocol units among others.

While the coaches of other categories of the national team do not have contracts, the former acting president of the Littoral League proposes contracts for all the coaches of the national teams at different levels and has high hopes for teams at international competitions.

For him, the federation will sign a convention with the professional football league to bring down the number of clubs, limit the number of female football clubs at 10 and make the cup of Cameroon more competitive by starting at the 1/72 finals.

Amateur and youth football as well as female football feature in his 11 point proposal to salvage Cameroon football after a diagnosis from within.

The former amateur footballer and President of Fecafoot Referee Commission intends to reverse the image of the federation of “Bad Boys”, collaborate with government and uphold the philosophy of inclusion.

Listen to him, “They chose dissidence, I chose collaboration with the authorities. They chose exclusion, I chose gathering all football stakeholders concerned by efforts towards the revival of our master discipline”.

Bringing in the social responsibility aspect in the management of Fecafoot, Tombi intends to reinsert former footballers and use football in the promotion of professional and amateur clubs values of tolerance, solidarity and fair-play.

To achieve these and many more, Tombi intends to spend about 15billion in the next four year in the different projects while proceeding with evaluations at every stage. The money he says would come from sponsors and from the reserves Fecafoot has accumulated within the past ten years.

While he intends to work with those in his list including Senator Charles Mbella Moki, Christopher Kaka and Nkengafe Prudencia Asongacha among others Tombi expresses the wish to extend a hand of collaboration to opponents: Prosper Nkou Mvondo, Joseph Bell Antoine and others.

While for now he is the lone eligible candidate, there is a possibility that by November 26 the new date for candidates to complete their files, he would have at least a challenger.

The Electoral Commission disqualified some candidates for incomplete files and Tombi was the only candidate with a complete file.