A two-person Fifa/Caf delegation will arrive in the country on the night of Tuesday, September 11 to finalize the composition of the Normalization Committee for the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Foty-Ghana.com has confirmed.
FIFA’s Director of Member Associations and Development for Africa and the Caribbean, Veron Mosengo-Omba has been mandated to represent the world football governing body while the continent’s regulator, Caf, has named its acting vice-president and leader of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, to head to Ghana.
The Fifa/Caf officials will meet with the Government of Ghana officials at the Ministry of Youth and Sports the following day – Wednesday September 12, a source revealed.
The meeting is expected to mainly focus on the screening of “persons of high integrity” already proposed by the Government of Ghana to form the Committee.
Footy-Ghana.com is also informed that government is pressing for a five-member Normalization Committee to be instituted though there’s an option for 7.
The Normalization Committee – when finalized at this meeting – will then be made public.
Fifa, last week, outlined the mandate of the Committee – whose work should not exceed the end of March 2019 – as:
- To run the GFA’s daily affairs and co-operate with the task force once it has been set up by Fifa, Caf and the Government of Ghana;
- To review the GFA Statuses to ensure compliance with the requirements of Fifa and Caf particularly article 15 of the Fifa Statutes;
- Once the GFA Statutes meets the requirements of Fifa and Caf, this Normalization Committee will organize and conduct the elections of the GFA Executive Committee on the basis of the revised GFA Statutes.
