Khama is right

Friday, June 05, 2015

This week President Ian Khama weighed in on the corruption storm that has rocked the international football organisation- FIFA.

He told BBC Radio on Wednesday that he welcomes the sudden announcement by FIFA president Sepp Blatter that he would step down from the organisation’s presidency in the next few months.

Khama, a sports enthusiast, said; “It was so painful and such pity that he decided to stand as FIFA president after a period that he he’d been presiding over so much corruption in that world body”.

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