(Letter to the Sports Editor)
THE recent nonpayment of prize monies to clubs in the GFF / KFC Elite Football League is
another indictment against the credibility of Wayne Forde, Dion Inniss and the Rawlston Adams-
led Guyana Football Federation.

Clubs were forced into wearing KFC logos on the front and back of their match uniforms, which
negatively affected these teams from getting sponsorship from other entities.
So, you would think that income generated from the GFF / KFC deal would reach the clubs as
soon as the final match of the KFC Elite League was finished. Or some announcement would
follow pertaining to prize distribution,
Instead, Wayne Forde, ably supported by his Vice Presidents Dion Innis and Rawlston Adams
(yes, the same Adams from the Harbour Bridge), remained silent, leaving clubs, players and fans
in the dark.

Had Forde and his VPs been a truly transparent group, they would have communicated with KFC
as sponsors and their clubs that they would pay at the end of November.
But it took an act of investigative journalism to sniff out that the GFF had not paid for Forde and
company, to make a hurried announcement that they would pay at the end of November.
We saw this movie already in how Wayne Forde dealt with players and staff payments for all
national teams.

The senior national players sent the media a letter a couple months ago highlighting the same issues as the current KFC sponsorship-payment fiasco.
Given the fact that Forde is a businessman, Dion Inniss is a senior executive in the airline
industry and Rawlston Adams a former senior executive of the Harbour Bridge, one would have
expected more professionalism and efficiency in dealing with the interests of a major sponsor
and his loyal clubs.

Typical Wayne Forde responds with a press release that lacks substance, taking no responsibility
but trying to twist the issues with a set of jargon about FIFA this and that etc. etc.
The other issue is how Elite League clubs such as the Guyana Defence Force, Slingerz FC, Police and
Western Tigers could accept such malfeasance.

And what about the Regional Member Associations, the forever owed Referees Body and other
affiliates of the GFF, is this the level of governance they want for football?

And how long would companies such as KFC and Blue Water Shipping of corporate Guyana put up
with these slipshod arrangements.
There is an old saying that people who elect fools as their governors get the leadership that they
deserve.
Wayne Wright
East Bank Demerara