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...For a better society... Monday, August 02 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Opinion Labour Politics Sports Features Columnists Business Money/Market Energy Alaba Market Foreign News Okpomo, ex-NFA scribe is dead FESTUS ABU BARELY eight days after the country’s football administration body lost a respected top shot, Mr. Edozie Enemuo, fresh tragedy has hit soccer in Nigeria with the loss of foremost administrator, Mr. Patrick Okpomo who died yesterday. Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) claimed in an e-mail message from its www.cafonline.com website that Okpomo "passed away early today (yesterday) morning." Okpomo, 60, passed away in Lagos after a brief illness, according to his bosom friend, Mr. Chris Eseka, who corroborated the CAF position. Mourning Okpomo’s death yesterday, CAF described him as a talented administrator who "has always shown a good sense of humour that made him to be admired and respected within football family at international and continental level." CAF’s message was sent by its secretary general, Mustapha Fahmy. The Delta State-born Okpomo served as Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) from 1984-87, 1989-90 and in 2002. He was the Director of Organization of the FIFA World Youth Championship hosted by Nigeria in 1999. The late Okpomo served in various CAF committees, including the Inter-Clubs Committee, for more than a decade. Before his death, he served as a member of the African Nations Cup organizing committee as well as being CAF’s general co-ordinator. His last known major assignment took place last month when he was in CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, to submit an inspection report after visiting Ghana and Libya, the two countries bidding for the hosting of the 2008 Nations Cup finals. Ghana eventually won the hosting right. Reacting to Okpomo’s death, Fahmy lamented his passing away. "CAF has lost one of its faithful members. The talented administrator has always shown a good sense of humour that made him to be admired and respected within the football family at international and continental level. He has shown sincere friendship to his friends, which is becoming very rare in the sporting world of today. The vacuum he left-behind would be difficult to fill," Fahmy was quoted as saying by www.cafonline.com CAF president Issah Hayatou also extended his condolences to the Okpomo family over the death. The late Okpomo was survived by a wife and children. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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