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GFF must request early submission of yearend tournaments audit reports

Jan 08, 2016 Sports

-Vital for transparency, accountability

By Rawle Welch
Now that the frenzy surrounding the annual yearend football tournaments has dissipated, the focus now should be on accountability and transparency within the respective associations that hosted competitions.
While it is early days in relation to each association submitting their respective audited accounts, it is incumbent on the local governing body, among whose mandate it is to ensure that all related affiliates are compliant with its statutes, to urge members to make early submissions of their audited reports.
The importance of this is that it will serve as notice to all that a new dispensation has arrived where good governance, accountability and transparency will be strictly adhered to and lip service a thing of the past.
The absence of those tenets was what severely hindered the sport’s development in the past and if the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is serious about taking the sport on a new path (one that it has not ventured on for close to three decades) then every affiliate must be held accountable.
The decision to grant its member associations permission to host their respective yearend tournaments is commendable since it allows them the opportunity to generate monies to assist in the further development of their member clubs, while at the same time contributing to their viability and alleviating some of the burden that the GFF faces as the entity chiefly responsible for the sport’s development.
The cost of hosting yearend tournaments is quite substantial, but a large percentage of it is borne by title sponsors with some assistance from a few minor sponsors thereby allowing the associations the luxury of concentrating on gate receipts as their primary avenue for profit.
This is to ensure that apart from compensating teams and by extension players at yearend, the other purpose should be to start the next year in a position of strength to execute their individual programmes.
In order to guarantee that those two areas are met, the involvement of the GFF is crucial as the caretaker of football in Guyana. Many times in the past officials were accused of fraudulent activities and clear lack of accountability which created a lot of acrimony within the fraternity, a development that evidently affected good governance.
In order to eradicate such suspicions, the governing body’s role must be to request audited accounts from every association at the earliest possible opportunity. The GFF could place itself in a strong position to exhibit the kind of leadership that was lacking for many years by requesting those audit reports are submitted at the earliest opportunity.

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