CMR celebrates FECAFOOT's autonomy from gov't

"We now have a president that listens" noted a former Weekly Post football reporter who spoke to Cameroon Concord immediately after President Biya signed another decree following that of last week but this time around abrogating the 1972 presidential decree that mandated the ministry of youth and sports to intervened in football issues in Cameroon.

Barely a week after Mr Biya signed a decree creating the National Football Academy, President Biya again has surprised many Cameroonians by signing another decree making the Cameroon Football Federation the sole cock to crow in Cameroon when it comes to football matters.

Henceforth, the national selection of the Lions of Cameroon, U23s, U20s, U17s, Cadet masculine and feminine have all been placed under the supreme authority of the Cameroon Football Federation aka FECAFOOT.

Correspondingly, the Biya decree sets a time table for planning before every competition. The President Biya historic decree marks the end of the corrupt intervention of the Cameroon government via the so called Ministry of Youth and Sports into football affairs in the country.

What is now known as the Biya Football Decree has been welcome by Cameroon Concord's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai who noted this morning in Dublin that " to eat football money now in Cameroon, you have to get into FECAFOOT and FECAFOOT is like a storey building you have to enter from the bottom and not from the top". Cameroonians in the UK, Germany, France and Ireland have reacted positively to the news.

Cameroon Concord learned that the Cameroon government decision was partly influenced by an AIT television sports panel discussion in Nigeria in which one of the speakers authoritatively asked the Goodluck administration to take away its funding that has always plunged Nigeria football into chaos.

The said speaker who was closely watched by Cameroonian football authorities charged with the drawing up of new rules governing FECAFOOT observed that Nollywood is surviving without Nigerian government money. Football too can survive without government funding. We of this publication salute the 81 years old Cameroonian dictator for this recent move.