Football’s world governing body Fifa has asked the Board of Directors of South Sudan Football Association (SSFA), to give a hearing opportunity to the suspended federation president Mr. Chabur Goc Alei.
This follows last month’s board of directors ruling stating that Mr. Alei should be suspended as the SSFA’s President citing financial impropriety.
Fifa futher instructed that Mr. Alei hearing to be held prior to the extraordinary general assembly to allow him respond to the allegations.
In a letter dated 9 December 2016, Fifa’s secretary general Fatima Samoura questioned the decision by SSFA board to suspend Mr Alei.
“We understand that the suspension of the President of SSFA shall be confirmed by the rest of the general assembly,which according to the roadmap will be the upcoming extra-ordinary general assembly of the SFFA that was postponed on 18th October 2016”,the letter read in its part.
“However, it does not appear from you correspondence that Mr Chabur Goc Alei was given an opportunity to be heard by the members of the Board of Directors of the SSFA before the decision of his suspension.In this context,we recommend you to allow Mr. Chabur Goc Alei to respond to the allegations aganist him and to be heard by the members of the Board of Directors of SSFA.We recommend that Mr.Chabur Goc Alei hearing to be held prior to the extraordinary general assembly”
Fifa, however, has taken a dim view of the development and informed the federation that the information passed is of general nature and therefore without prejudice to any decision that any compenent FIFA body may be called to pass in that matter.
The SSFA Board of Directors took a decision to suspend Mr.Chabur Goc Alei during an Emergency Extra Ordinary Meeting held on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 accusing him of financial impropriety.
They accused Mr Alei of among others, “taking decisions on financial expenditures of the Association alone without the knowledge of Members of Board of Directors and members of finance committee’, including transfer of $400,000 to his personal account between 11th and 19th March 2015, and single handedly borrowing $12,000.
