Media release from Nabeel Ahmed’s Campaign
Time and again the USACA Executives have exhibited misrepresentation of the USACA constitution and violation of its implementation after the current USACA Board’s term expired on March 28, 2011. Few of the USACA regional administrations have not been duly elected and/or positioned so that the national election can proceed as per plan. With the announced October 15, 2011 fast approaching there has been literally no communication on the said election process and the declared timeline followed as per acceptance expressed or announced by the current USACA Board.
Nabeel Ahmed, a USACA presidential candidate. Photo by Shiek Mohamed
The height of the entire agony has been the controversial division that existed throughout the term of this current USACA Board, making sure that this USACA Board can never make it to a face-to-face meeting (No more meetings, is it?).
The best to cite are
• The USACA website, under a crash for a petty power struggle as to who controls the information, reflecting the face of the organization being misused by Board members to publish all information that misleads or disinterests the USA Cricket stakeholders.
• All the key national tournaments moved to substandard conduct or cancelled, denying the USA Cricket stakeholders the basic opportunity to perform on the field with lack of funding as a reason, when the USACA administration promised, at the Town-hall meetings, that leagues would receive funds from the recently-signed commercial deal.
What has happened to the commercial deal which is supposed to bring million of dollars to USACA?
How do the commercial partners feel about the entire situation here in the USACA at this time?
Though all of these actions help jeopardizing the commercial deal, the current leadership of USACA seems to ignore that the things are getting out of hand and a cloud of the legal ramifications that have, and will, result as a consequence of this unconstitutional extension of the three year term of the USACA Board. This, of course, is becoming a very serious concern for the general membership with the power hungry administrators, who have been making false promises and unconstitutional moves, have continuously been making the general membership restless when there is a long explorable list of things which will improve the relationship between the general membership and USACA Administration.
Now that they have little or no support throughout the cricketing circles of the country, they are playing a delaying tactics on the elections and thus destroying the fairness to be rendered to the USA Cricket stakeholders. I suggest and make a plea to all USACA officials involved in such shameful acts to stop playing these kinds of mind games and work towards the improvement of the game of cricket. USA Cricket stakeholders do not need people trying to convert USACA into an internal business deal, but they do need a strong dynamic leader to work genuinely for the growth of the game of cricket with no strings attached. Also, the USACA Code of Conduct should be utilized to deal with this blatant display of unprofessionalism and non-governance.
Time has come for these people to admit the defeat and leave.
Time has come for a change for the betterment of cricket in USA.
The league presidents throughout the country are smart people. These are those dedicated cricket stakeholders of USA, sacrificing a lot in their lives to promote the game of cricket in this country. They are capable enough to identify, establish and elect the right candidates in the upcoming elections. It is they who deal with cricket and cricketers on day to day basis. They need to speak up for their rights and what is right for their players, clubs, leagues, regions and USACA. They deserve a better treatment and high respect. They cannot be tagged with a price or value by any established means.
It matters holding the elections on time and leave the rest to the incoming board with lots of capable people out there who will be elected democratically to run this esteemed organization USACA. I strongly recommend that all the efforts should be made to ensure the elections should take place as announced on schedule and be monitored by the independent auditors as the constitution dictates.
