Sierra Leone’s Sports Minister reacted angrily on Monday to a threat by FIFA to ban or suspend the country for the suspension of the nation’s two top football officials in a corruption probe.
“We will not accept or tolerate any threat from FIFA,” minister Ibrahim Nyelenkeh told AFP in Freetown.
The global association, he insisted, had “no right or authority to suspend or ban Sierra Leone.”
The minister said it was the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (AAC), not the government, which had asked Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) President Isha Johansen and Secretary General Christopher Kamara to step down pending an investigation into alleged misuse of donor and state funds.
“We do not interfere into the operations of football administrators as a sports ministry,” he insisted and said the government “did not participate” in a raid on the SLFA.
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