There are re­ports that two pieces of equip­ment, val­ued at ap­prox­i­mate­ly $120, 400 have gone miss­ing from the con­tro­ver­sial Home of Foot­ball in Bal­main, Cou­va. And it is now gain­ing the at­ten­tion of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice which is head­ed by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith, the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Ramesh Ramd­han said on Tues­day.

The equip­ment ap­peared to have gone miss­ing just be­fore No­vem­ber 24, 2019, An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and Elec­tions of the TTFA at the Home of Foot­ball.

Ramd­han re­vealed that he made the re­port on March 10 and fol­lowed it up with a con­ver­sa­tion with Grif­fith, who promised that the mat­ter will be in­ves­ti­gat­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to the for­mer World Cup ref­er­ee, he can think about no one else who can take the equip­ment than those who were there be­fore his ad­min­is­tra­tion, not­ing that de­spite hav­ing a se­cu­ri­ty pres­ence at the Home of Foot­ball, thieves still made away with the equip­ment which was bought in the name of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion. “The mon­ey that was used to pur­chase the equip­ment came from the FI­FA For­ward Project, and it is said to be worth much more than the amount stat­ed on an in­voice in my pos­ses­sion,” Ramd­han ex­plained.

Con­tact­ed on Tues­day John-Williams said he had no com­ment on the mat­ter, while calls to the cell phone of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er -Grif­fith, went unan­swered.

Guardian Me­dia Sports learnt re­cent­ly that John-Williams filed a re­port with the po­lice on the claim of al­leged fraud against a for­mer em­ploy­ee of the em­bat­tled foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion. It is said the em­ploy­ee took le­gal ac­tions against his em­ploy­ers for wrong­ful dis­missal a few years ago, but in his at­tempt to jus­ti­fy the amount he was be­ing paid in court, gave a false state­ment (wrong amount) which John-Williams be­lieved should have been chal­lenged for fraud.

Ramd­han and his team which com­prised pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and his vice pres­i­dents Clynt Tay­lor, Sam Phillip and Su­san Joseph-War­rick, con­vinc­ing­ly de­feat­ed for­mer pres­i­dent David John-Williams and his team at the AGM of No­vem­ber 24, with Wal­lace get­ting the nod over his John-Williams 26-20 for the post of pres­i­den­cy.

He said since then the world gov­ern­ing body for the sport - FI­FA, has de­cid­ed to send a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to man­age the af­fairs of lo­cal foot­ball, a de­ci­sion that is be­ing chal­lenged through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sports.

Ramd­han said Wal­lace and the TTFA be­lieve FI­FA's de­ci­sion to re­move the du­ly elect­ed of­fi­cers from of­fice was done with­out mer­it and or log­ic.