The Cameroonian Government has dismissed speculations that the country will be postponing the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON.
Reports had earlier emerged that the biennial African football showpiece might be postponed, moved from Cameroon or be canceled due to the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
However, a top official of Cameroon's ministry of sports, Bothy Minsub, has now debunked such reports of a looming announcement to postpone the AFCON 2021, guaranteeing that the tournament will go on as planned in January 2022.
Recall that the AFCON 2021 was originally billed to take place between June and July 2021 but was postponed till next year due to the pandemic.
"The Minister of Sport met with Samuel Eto'o, president of the Cameroon Football Federation, and affirmed the country's readiness to host the tournament and refute all those reports that we can't host it," Minsub told Filgoal.
"We will tell the CAF that we refuse the hypothesis of postponement if they ask us, we have a great will to host the tournament on time.
"It is a plot against us and [the ECA letter] contains wrong information. They say COVID-19 is widespread in Cameroon.
"What about the UK that has recorded 10 million and more infections, and have more than 147,000 deaths, while we only recorded less than 110,000 infections and less than 1,500 deaths.
"We play the league here normally, we are ready to host the tournament on time and the Caf committee have seen this in their last visit and were overwhelmed."
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