Adoum Garoua calls Joseph Owona to order

The Minister of Sports and Physical Education has published a statement in which he urged the FECAFOOT Standards Committee to adhere to the ruling of the Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration of the national and Sports Committee of Cameroon and the Court Arbitration for Sport.

In a statement read on the Cameroon national radio-television station on May 30, 2015, the Minister of Sports and Physical Education asked football players to submit to recent decisions taken by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (Tas) and the Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration and the National Sports Committee of Cameroon (CNOSC).

To this end, the patron of sports writes "with a view to a smooth electoral process currently underway at FECAFOOT, I invite all stakeholders of that process to a strict respect of the laws and regulations of the Republic as well as fully implementing the recent decisions of the competent judicial formations."

It mainly targets the latest unfavorable decisions of the Standards Committee that were recently made in favor of Messrs Abdouraman Hamadou Babba and Antoine Essomba Eyenga Depadoue, opponents determined to fight for the management of Cameroonian football.

"This is especially of arbitral ruling made by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (Tas) on 19 February 2015 in cases between gentlemen from FECAFOOT respectively Depadoue Antoine Essomba Eyenga and Abdouraman Hamadou Babba, and of the ruling of the conciliation Room and arbitration and the National Sports Committee of Cameroon (CNOSC) on May 15, 2013 in the case between the regional and departmental football leagues in Cameroon, represented by Mr Hamadou Abdouraman Babba at FECAFOOT, the requirements of the arbitration chamber of correspondence No. Tas Tas / A / 4058 dated 18 May 2015," said Adoum Garoua.

The MINSEP calls also "for the sense of respect for the general interest and the responsibility of all."

Regarding the decision of the Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration of CNOSC of 15 May 2015, Joseph Owona, President of Standards Committee said he has not been notified of the ruling.

He explained why he maintained the newly appointed Regional Committees while CNOSC's sentence required them to make room for the local executive (elected in 2009) who were working before the election crisis in 2013.