Iya Mohamed hospitalised as court maintains embargo on FECAFOOT accounts

The former general manager of the Cameroon cotton production company, SODECOTTON, Iya Mohamed incarcerated on September 3, 2015 for embezzlement of state funds is critically sick.

Reports say Iya who held the post of president of the Cameroon Football Federation, FECAFOOT till he was arrested in 2014, and later sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Special Criminal Court, SCC, has been under medical attention at the Centre Hospitalier d’Essos in Yaounde.

file photo: Iya(R) Roger Milla (L)
Contrary to other high profile prisoners whose hospitalisation prompted the deployment of heavily armed security forces, security around the ex-FECAFOOT president’s ward on the second floor of the hospital is inconspicuous.

Meanwhile, a confusion set into the federation after Iya’s imprisonment has remained in a continuous twirl.

Its current president, Tombi a Roko Sidicki, imposed by a ministerial order after a disputed election, last Friday May 27, lost a suit to have control over the federation’s bank accounts.

Contenders of the post including former national team goalie, Joseph Antoine Bell, Abdouraman Hamadou Baba, and others who insist so long as the elections were full of irregularities, Tombi a Roko’s presidency and his entire executive remain illegitimate.

Abdouraman Hamadou Baba who has been filing suits in various football jurisdictions against the illegality of the FECAFOOT executive, revealed a few days ago that the case file he filed a the highest  international judicial institution for football conflicts, the  Court of Arbitration for Sports, resumed examination of the federation’s affaire on May 19, this year.



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