Manning to step down as NBFTT president
trinidad express
Brian Manning, son of former prime minister Patrick Manning, will step down as president of the National Basketball Federation of Trinidad and Tobago (NBFTT) next month.
Manning intends to resign his post in an ’effort to protect our national teams from individuals on the NBFTT’s board’, he stated yesterday in a news release.
Manning revealed that he, along with newly-installed NBFTT CEO Albert Lee Young and ’five of the seven elected officers’ are stepping down from the board of directors ’out of disgust at the behaviour’ of another NBFTT official.
’I resigned in an effort to protect our national teams from individuals on the NBFTT’s board who were willing to dash the hopes and dreams of our young athletes in a selfish attempt to seek their own interest and attack me,’ Manning stated.
He added that ’it became abundantly apparent over the past few weeks’ that ’a small group of board members were determined to sabotage the efforts of our national teams’.
He claimed that the NBFTT has collapsed ’once again’, blaming their ’unworkable constitution’, which ’sets the stage for acrimony and discord’.
Manning said each recent meeting became a ’circus’, where a ’handful of representatives’ would turn issues into shouting matches.
He called on the Ministry of Sport to intervene in the issue.
’I will stay on until mid-July to ensure that our national teams have what they need to be successful and then I will gladly move on to other opportunities that I would like to pursue at this stage of my life,’ Manning concluded.
