The truth will come out one way or the other

Jan 09, 2016 Sports

By Rawle Welch
After many years of silence and cover-ups, the international sports landscape is experiencing a major shakeup thanks to US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Lynch, who has been responsible for massive investigations of fraud within the powerful FIFA displayed marvelous courage in bringing down some of the most influential and powerful administrators in the Sport including its President Sepp Blatter and many of his loyal lieutenants.
WADA on the other hand recently revealed the findings of its investigations into doping scandals involving the powerful Russia which has resulted in the country’s immediate suspension from world athletics that could also affect its participation at this year’s Olympics in Rio.
The results have implicated three major figures in the sport including the son of former President of the International Association of Athletics (IAAF) Lamine Diack and two Russian officials who were all slapped with life bans.
In the football arena, Blatter, former Presidential aspirant Michel Platini, General Secretary Jerome Valcke, CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb are among the ‘big’ names to suffer at the hands of the US Attorney General’s actions and the FIFA Ethics Committee respectively for suspected corrupt activities stemming from lengthy investigations.
These examples of justice being served should be a wakeup call for local officials who believe that they can act with impunity and escape punishment. Lynch has demonstrated that the long arm of the law can reach across nations and it would not be surprising if the tentacles of her entity reach the shores of this nation.
The football arena has long been the subject of corruption and those who held the reins of power patently failed to address certain pertinent issues in relation to the sport’s governance both in terms of finance and administration and perhaps it will take the presence of Lynch’s staffers to let us know the real facts.
We can no longer depend on inconclusive audits that are happy to report the absence of pertinent information, but rather the forensic investigation of a credible organisation that cannot be easily compromised.
For a small country that plays very little football internationally, the debt burden is unbelievable and while several audits have been conducted, the conclusions seem just as unbelievable as the stated liability.
The truth will come out one way or the other and when it does it will be a day that local fans of the sport had hoped for, for years.

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