I left Normalisation Committee for two reasons - Lucy Quist

Lucy Quist has revealed that she quit her role as the vice president of the Normalisation Committee because of two reasons.

Earlier when she resigned from her role as the Vice President of the Normalisation Committee, she stated that her resignation was based on “personal reasons”.

However, in a recent interview on the Y Leaderboard Series with YFM’s Rev. Erskine, she disclosed that she left her position because she had fulfilled her mandate as a vice president and also because she had a new job offer in another country which would have interrupted her work as a Vice President of the Normalisation Committee.

“As a committee, we were initially mandated to work for three months and then it was extended to six months and then to nine months. I passed through the first two mandates and I feel it was a great learning opportunity for me.

I mentioned the mandate. I mentioned the extension of the mandate. I mentioned that the focus of the business for which I was called was done. In fact, we handed over to the incoming team and in the same month I left, the personal reason was that I was getting a new job in London. It was simply that and in the same month, I had to start my new job so it wasn’t even about the committee. It was about having to start a new job in another country.

Maybe if the new job was going to be based here I could have tried to stay. It was physically impossible to start a new job back here where I work now in London and at the same time meaningfully contribute to the committee and it was in respect to my colleagues. And I made sure I was upfront about it”.

She added that working with the other members of the committee was a privilege that she will always treasure because she learnt a lot.

The Normalisation Committee was set up by FIFA in September 2018 to run Ghana football in an interim capacity to replace the erstwhile Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association.

This was after investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ uncovering of corruption in Ghana football which led to former President of the GFA, Kwesi Nyantakyi, being banned for life from all football-related activities at both national and international levels.