A Transition Committee of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has documented a series of serious breaches of duty and mismanagement under the administration of former SLFA President Thomas Daddy Brima.
According to the report, SLFA may have exposed itself to legal risk by operating five buses without licensing, in violation of statutory road transportation and regulatory requirements.
The report establishes that those buses, though in active use, were never duly registered or licensed under the Thomas Daddy Brima administration, thereby contravening laws that mandate vehicle licensing and exposing the SLFA to potential claims of negligence or lack of due diligence.
In addition, the report identifies fiduciary deficiencies in the handling of donated assets. Only forty of the one hundred and sixty motorbikes pledged under the FIFA business plan were distributed; the remaining one hundred and twenty vehicles remain unaccounted for.
The Committee also found that over 10,820 footballs donated since 2023 remain in storage, and that a sum of fifty thousand US dollars designated for educational football initiatives was not disbursed or used for its intended purpose.
These findings may constitute a breach of agreement or contract with funders, as funds allocated for specific programs were not applied accordingly.
The report further states that memoranda of understanding with clubs that use the SLFA Academy Field were drafted with vague terms and lacked enforceable provisions for compliance, thereby undermining contractual certainty.
Furthermore, SLFA’s financial control systems are compromised by acceptance of payments via mobile money rather than through traceable banking channels, which weakens auditability and increases exposure to allegations of financial impropriety.
The hostel facility owned by SLFA remains unfinished and underutilized, despite its potential to generate revenue. This suggests negligent asset management and failure to maximize value for the Association.
The Committee also notes the absence of proper operational guidelines, handover documentation, or expressed job descriptions for facility and program management, thereby impairing administrative continuity and internal control.
The cumulative effect of these failures may render the former administration liable under principles of administrative law for failing to uphold statutory, fiduciary, and contractual obligations.
Stakeholders have called for a formal legal audit, possible financial restitution, and corrective reforms.
