Former Liberian FA Boss Bility Loses Appeal As CAS Upholds Ten-Year Ban Imposed on Him by FIFA

• CAS has rejected the appeal of former Liberian FA president Musa Bility and he will now have to serve his ban
• Bility was accused of stealing money earmarked by the association to help Ebola awareness during the epidemic
• But the football administrator took advantage and raked in some money into his account and was banned for 10 years

Former Liberian FA president, Musa Hassan Bility has lost his appeal filed at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) against FIFA with respect to the decision of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee on 12 February 2019.

The appeal was dismissed and the decision of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee on 12 February 2019 was confirmed.

This means that Mr. Musa Bility's 10-year ban remains in place.

Bility's initial 10-year ban by the world's football governing body FIFA was triggered after the Liberian was said to have misappropriated FIFA funds, offering and accepting gifts as well as other benefits and conflicts of interest.

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What brought Bility's ban?

According to the statement FIFA sent by mail to Sports Brief, Bility, a former President of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), is said to have misappropriated funds from entities owned by him or linked to his family.

The Liberian businessman had petitioned the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) with the hopes of having the FIFA decision overturned. But with the CAS decision dated May 2 upholding the FIFA ban, Bility's 10-year suspension from the sport stands.

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Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Liberians yearned for a new government and wanted a radical change from what Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of the Unity Party had offered for 12 years.

After succeeding at the polls, The Congress for Democratic Change’s presidential candidate, George Weah, and his running mate, Jewel Taylor were sworn in in January 2018.

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Taylor was the former wife of the convicted warlord and former president, Charles Taylor.

It ushered in a new dispensation of hope, as Weah rode in on the promises of fighting corruption, reforming the economy, combating illiteracy, and improving living conditions.