The Federation of International Football (FIFA) has mandated officials of the body and the continent's governing body CAF to appoint members of the Normalization committee to manage the affairs of Ghana Football for the next six months.
Ghana Football has been at a halt since the premiering of the Anas expose' which capture several top football officials in the country involved in corruption scandals.
The aftermath of the premiering has led to several meetings between FIFA and government and on the last of such meetings it was agreed a normalization committee be formed.
The Normalization committee will be made of persons with high integrity. And, according to FIFA, the member will be appointed by the it's executives and that of the Confederation of African Football without any government influence.
The normalisation committee’s mandate will include the following tasks:
- To run the GFA’s daily affairs and cooperate with the special task force once it has been set up by FIFA, CAF and the Government of Ghana;
- To review the GFA statutes to ensure compliance with the requirements of FIFA and CAF, particularly art. 15 of the FIFA Statutes, and;
- Once the GFA statutes meet the requirements of FIFA and CAF, to organise and conduct elections of a GFA executive committee on the basis of the revised GFA statutes.
According to FIFA the normalisation committee shall be composed of an adequate number of members to be identified by a joint FIFA/CAF mission to be deployed to Ghana as soon as possible.
All members of the normalisation committee must pass an eligibility check to be carried out by the FIFA Review Committee.
The normalisation committee will act as an electoral committee and none of its members will be eligible for any of the open positions in the elections.
The specified period of time during which the normalisation committee shall perform its functions shall expire when all of the above-mentioned tasks have been properly fulfilled, but by no later than 31 March 2019.
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