Not conflicted: Hilda Basson-Namundjebo
The woman heading the NFA's Normalisation Committee says she was taken aback by the public response to her appointment.
The chairperson of the Namibia Football Association's Normalisation Committee, Hilda Basson-Namundjebo, says there is no conflict of interests in her position as the new administrator at the Football House.
She was responding to comments on social media platforms which questioned her appointment as the chairperson of the committee, seeing that her newspaper, The Patriot, recently ran an exposé of happenings at Football House.
“I own The Patriot newspaper, but I do not run the newspaper. Ask the journalist where they got the information from.
“Even now I have no sight of what is in the paper for this week,” she said.
Basson-Namundjebo added that she does not dictate what is published in the newspaper.
She said she was surprised at the vehement criticism of herself and her colleague Vivienne Katjiuongua, saying that people seemed to think they were on the NC to “referee matches”.
“I am here because of my business acumen. My job is to run this organisation like I have done before in other institutions which needed my help.
“I was not asked to run football games, I was asked to run the NFA,” she clarified.
Basson-Namundjebo said people should rather judge her results at the end of her contract in four months' time. She also denied being part of any of the two warring camps that were fighting to take control of the NFA, prompting Fifa to intervene.
Other members on the NFA normalisation committee are Franco Cosmos, Gaby Ahrens, Matti Mwandingi and Vivienne Katjiuongua.
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She was responding to comments on social media platforms which questioned her appointment as the chairperson of the committee, seeing that her newspaper, The Patriot, recently ran an exposé of happenings at Football House.
“I own The Patriot newspaper, but I do not run the newspaper. Ask the journalist where they got the information from.
“Even now I have no sight of what is in the paper for this week,” she said.
Basson-Namundjebo added that she does not dictate what is published in the newspaper.
She said she was surprised at the vehement criticism of herself and her colleague Vivienne Katjiuongua, saying that people seemed to think they were on the NC to “referee matches”.
“I am here because of my business acumen. My job is to run this organisation like I have done before in other institutions which needed my help.
“I was not asked to run football games, I was asked to run the NFA,” she clarified.
Basson-Namundjebo said people should rather judge her results at the end of her contract in four months' time. She also denied being part of any of the two warring camps that were fighting to take control of the NFA, prompting Fifa to intervene.
Other members on the NFA normalisation committee are Franco Cosmos, Gaby Ahrens, Matti Mwandingi and Vivienne Katjiuongua.
NAMPA
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