Rwandan football administrators are feeling the pinch. The reason is Rwanda Football Federation’s (Ferwafa) string of unending gaffes that have plagued it all along its unsuccessful bid to remain football relevant.

Ferwafa, unlike many other football administrative bodies on the continent, the government has got its back. It has supported it fully. You will never hear of a Rwandan team failing to honour its international obligations due to lack of funding.

But Ferwafa has failed to honour its part of the bargain and instead been a source of financial losses to the government. It can afford to do so because it is not worried about dipping its hands in its own pockets; there is always the Ministry of Sports to do so.

But this spoilt brat attitude needs to stop. Ferwafa has to be responsible and learn to carry its own cross because the government will not bail it out forever. Who ill-advised it to breach a head coach’s contract immediately after renewing it? Did they think they would walk away scot-free?

That irresponsible act has cost the government over Rwf 180 million, monies that, in normal circumstances, should have been paid by Ferwafa as Fifa had ordered, failure of which Rwanda would have been banned from all Fifa organized events.

Ferwafa’s mode of operation needs a serious broom work; to begin with, its leaders need to be held personally responsible for matters such as the breach of contract nightmare. The day they realise that the buck stops with them and that the government will not always be there to clean their mess, maybe they will grow up.

Even though Fifa looks down badly on governments interfering in football matters, the government needs to do something: After all, it is he who pays the piper that calls the tune.