By Ras Wadada

PRESIDENT of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Wayne Forde yesterday refuted claims by the former General Secretary of the GFF, Deidre Davis, who revealed via a Press release that was also on social media one month after her dismissal that she was never warned about her poor work performance and maintains her termination was done in a distasteful manner.“At no time during the tenure of the Executive Committee was I informed or given a warning notice on my purported deficiencies and unsatisfactory performance as required by Section 11 (4) of the Guyana Labour Laws. It is in this regard that I would consider my termination in bad faith and unjust” – an excerpt from the release made last Thursday by Davis.
Chronicle Sport was able to contact the GFF boss, via the telephone, minutes before he departed yesterday morning for the CFU elections in Miami and he promptly dismissed the accusation.
“It is unfortunate that the former GS would choose to put something like that into the public domain. Of course the Federation is very satisfied that it has more than enough correspondence between herself and the Federation, outlining shortcomings of the Secretariat.
If the need arises, the Federation would be more than happy to share the information to show that there was a pattern of lapses with the operations of the Secretariat,” Forde emphatically declared.
Davis’ services were terminated on June 22, 2016 after being employed by the Federation since February of last year and then appointed General Secretary eight months later. The termination of her services was relayed to the members of the GFF exclusively.