In Morocco, calls for the resignation of Abdeslam Ahizoune, who has accumulated nearly 19 years of experience at the head of the Royal Moroccan Athletics Federation (FRMA), are multiplying. At the origin of these calls, the discipline has been languishing for years, then fell into a state of total lethargy.
Hassan Koujani, former director of the Union Zemmouri Khémisset athletics club (1996-2006), calls for urgent measures to be taken to end the series of failures of Moroccan athletes over the past two decades during which the Moroccan Athletics Federation has been led by Abdeslam Ahizoune.
Four individuals were brought before the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal in Rabat, for forming a criminal association and fraud. The defendants were arrested in the act of burgling the villa of the chairman of the management board of Maroc Telecom in Harhoura.
A parliamentary fact-finding mission looked into Moroccan athletics. The grievances against the federation should be the subject of debate at the next meeting of the members of the Social Sectors Commission of the House of Representatives.
At the last ordinary general assembly of the Royal Moroccan Athletics Federation (FRMA) held on Monday, July 22, 2019 in Rabat, Abdeslam Ahizoune was re-elected as head of the FRMA by his peers, for a fourth term.