Imperative Improvement!

Cameroon’s local football championship has dropped curtains for this year with much to take home by all stakeholders involved in the king sports in the country. While the organiser would be breathing a sigh of relief for taking the championship to the end, participating clubs are either celebrating their glory, stay in elite one or two, promotion from the inferior to superior league or gnashing their teeth for demotion to inferior leagues.   
Inasmuch as this is usually the outcome of all championships anywhere on earth, stakeholders in Cameroon must be courageous to assess how the championship fared and above all, be honest enough to acknowledge that there were irking shortcomings which must be corrected.
Football is a passionate game, especially in a country like Cameroon where the sports has proven over the years to be an unmatched unifier. That a local championship which would have further solidified a diverse people rather rips brothers apart, left many wondering what has become of the game in the country. Clubs turning down matches or strongly opposing particular match officials, referees head-butting players on the pitch, late homologation of matches and the sometimes controversial decisions of the ethics commission are just some of the awkward moments of the just-ended football season. Quite disturbing in a football powerhouse!
There is therefore need to sit up if the country’s local championship must be given the grandeur it deserves. But for this to happen, stakeholders must rise above trivial squabbling that have tainted the game here for long now. There must be a definite solution to the status of clubs. For, the one-man ownership seen for most of the clubs doesn’t augur well for the much-trumpeted professionalization of football in Cameroon. Shylock business people must not be allowed to use football as their milking cow where they collect State subvention and squander, hire and fire players at will or even sell them and render account to no one.
The question of subvention even should be well clarified and conditions of accessibility ...