BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)

Caribbean Football Union vice-president Colin Klass, has backed a call from suspended acting CONCACAF head Lisle Austin, for a forensic audit of the organisation's finances.

Klass said it was crucial the audit was carried out especially against the backdrop of the recent turmoil in CONCACAF which resulted in the resignation of president Jack Warner.

The Guyana Football Federation president said the cash-for-vote scandal had 'destabilised our once mighty ship' and said efforts needed to be undertaken by the executive committee in order to reposition the organisation.

"We must anchor our ship or we will forever be lost, we cannot submit ourselves to the tyranny of a minority, the audit must be done now," Klass said.

"While I will not cast aspersions on the questionable characters of those who have foisted themselves in leadership positions and those who have scarified our names and our soldiers for their own political ambitions, I will describe the delaying tactics of the CONCACAF Exco (executive committee) and its general secretary (Chuck Blazer) on this matter as very strange. Why is this happening?"

He added: "Could it be that Chuck Blazer is attempting to perpetuate a culture of secrecy at the organisation to prevent a true accounting of what has gone on at CONCACAF during his tenure?

"Is there credibility to claims that this review would unravel and expose the lavish lifestyles of certain employees funded by CONCACAF accounts"?

Ever since the corruption scandal erupted, there has been a leadership struggle in CONCACAF with Austin being suspended by the executive committee for an apparent infringement of the organisation statues.

Barbadian Austin headed to the law courts to overturn the ruling but has remained sidelined by FIFA and CONCACAF.

Prior to his suspension, Austin had ordered a forensic audit and had also attempted to fire Blazer for acting outside his authority as general secretary, in ordering the Chicago-based law firm Collins and Collins to collect information for the report which sparked the cash-for-vote scandal.

Klass said the audit would help return CONCACAF to a path of normalcy.

"If we are to now move forward a clear path must be, all clouds of uncertainly and ambiguity must be lifted," he said.

"I call on the CONCACAF executive to heed these calls, I implore them to do what is right."