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GFF and the KFC tournament prize money  

Nov 26, 2024 Letters, Sports

Dear Editor

 The recent non-payment of prize monies to clubs in the GFF/ KFC Elite Football League is another indictment against the credibility of the leadership of the Guyana Football Federation.

Clubs were forced into wearing KFC logos on the front and back of their match uniforms, which negatively affected these teams from getting sponsorship from other entities.

So you would think that income generated from the GFF / KFC deal would reach the clubs as soon as the final match of the KFC Elite League was finished, or some announcement would follow pertaining to prize distribution.

Instead, Wayne Forde ably supported by his Vice Presidents Dion Inniss and Rawlston Adams remained silent leaving clubs, players and fans in the dark.

Had Forde and his VPs been a truly transparent group, they would have communicated with KFC as sponsors and their clubs that they would pay at the end of November.

But it took an act of investigative journalism to sniff out that the GFF had not paid for Forde and company, to make a hurried announcement that they would pay at the end of November.

We saw this move already in how Wayne Forde dealt with players and staff payments for all national teams. The senior national players sent the media a letter a couple months ago highlighting the same issues as the current KFC Sponsorship payment fiasco.

Given the fact that Forde is a businessman, Dion Inniss is a senior executive in the airline industry and Rawlston Adams, a former senior executive of the Harbour Bridge, one would have expected more professionalism and efficiency in dealing with the interests of a major sponsor and his loyal clubs.

Typical Wayne Forde, he responds with a press release that lacks substance, taking no responsibility but trying to twist the issues with a set of jargon about FIFA this and that, etc. etc.

The other issue is how Elite League clubs like Guyana Defence Force, Slingerz FC, Police and Western Tigers could accept such a thing? And what about the Sub Associations, the forever owed Referees Body and other affiliates of the GFF, is this the level of governance they want for football?  And how long would companies like KFC and Blue Water Shipping of corporate Guyana put up with these slipshod arrangements?  There is an old saying that people who elect fools as their governors get the leadership that they deserve.

 Regards

Concerned football enthusiast

(GFF and the KFC tournament prize money)  

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