President of
Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, has been handed extra duties
following his inclusion in the CAF Emergency Committee on Friday. The decision to include him in the Emergency
committee was taken at the just concluded CAF Extraordinary General Assembly
holding in Rabat, Morocco. The proposal for his appoint had earlier made but
finally rectified at the Assembly. Pinnick is also President, Organising
Committee for the Africa Cup of Nations.
While CAF
standing Committees were reduced from 19 to 11,Fouzi Lekjaa, a member of the
CAF Executive Committee was appointed 3rd CAF Vice President even as he retains
his positions as president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and
President of the Finance Committee
respectively.
Media
information dished out via CAF website announced as follows:
At the end
of the CAF Extraordinary General Assembly held on Friday, 21 July 2017, in
Rabat, Morocco, which saw the adoption
by a large
majority (50 votes for and 3 abstentions) for amendment to the organization’s
statutes, a meeting of the
Executive
Committee was convened by CAF President Ahmad. This was in order to implement
some of the new statutory provisions.
Fouzi
Lekjaa, a member of the CAF Executive Committee was appointed 3rd CAF Vice
President. The latter, also president of the Royal Moroccan Football
Federation, retains the post of president of the Finance Committee.
The number
of CAF Standing Committees has been reduced from 19 to 11. The Judicial and
Compliance bodies whose presidents are to be elected by the General Assembly
have been expanded with the creation of a Governance Committee.
The CAF
Executive Committee also appointed president and vice presidents of the
Standing committees, whose members will be appointed in the near future.
Finance
Committee
President:
Fouzi Lekjaa
Organizing
Committee for the Africa Cup of Nations
President:
Amaju Pinnick
Vice
Presidents: Danny Jordaan
Philip
Chiyangwa (President, Southern Zone)
Organizing
Committee for the African Nations Championship
President:
Musa Bility
Vice
Presidents: Rui Da Costa
douard
Ngaissona (President, Central Zone)
Organizing
Committee for Inter-Club Competitions and Management of Club Licensing System
President:
Tarek Bouchamaoui
Vice
President: Ahmed Yahyia
Mutassim
Gaafar (President, Central-East Zone)
Organizing
Committee for Youth Africa Cup of Nations (U-17, U-20, U-23)
President:
Danny Jordaan
Vice
President: Almamy Kabele Camara
Organizing
Committee for Women's Football
President:
Isha Johanssen
Vice
President: Lydia Nsekera
Committee
for development of Futsal and Beach Soccer
President:
Moses Magogo
Vice
President: Wadie Jary (President, North Zone)
Referees
Committee
President:
Suleiman Waberi
Vice
President: Lim Kee-Chong
Committee on
Legal Affairs and National Associations
President:
Ahmed Yahyia
Vice
Presidents: Augustin Senghor (President, Zone West A)
Hani Abo
Rida
Medical
Committee
President:
Adoum Djibrine
Vice
President: Yacine Zerguini
Technical
and Development Committee
President:
Kalusha Bwalya
Vice
President: Leodegar Tenga
The CAF
Executive Committee also approved the CAF President’s proposal to appoint Amaju
Pinnick as a member of the Emergency
Committee.
This follows the enlargement of this structure which is induced by the
statutory reform with the creation of the post of 3rd Vice President, who also
happens to be the president of the Finance Committee.
Another
major point of the reform of the statutes, which led to the enlargement of the
CAF Executive Committee, is that
African
members of the FIFA Council are full members of the CAF Executive Committee,
with voting rights.
The terms of
office of the FIFA Council and the CAF Executive Committee are therefore no
longer cumulative.
