By Alhaji H. Koroma
When Babadi Kamara got his first involvement in the premier league in the 2018/19 season, he started as a fan club chairman, and most people wrote him off.
He was so strong and determined to re-establish the fan club with a rejuvenated spirit, which he succeeded together with other young and dynamic men and women, which eventually became the solid foundation upon which the success story of Bo Rangers started, and the team now enjoys the most fan-followed team for away matches in the country’s most elite league.
BBD came into full operations as Ag. Chairman of BR at the tail end of that season as he was later, duly appointed as the substantive chairman of the club.
The newly appointed chairman was so excited for his appointment and automatically restructured the BR club with a team of experts to run the day to day affairs of the only southern region premier league club.
In his structural formula,he first set up a board that comprises all works of life ranging from the bike riders union, traditional leaders, traders union, etc.
The indomitable Chairman then moved on to the technical department, where he appointed Abdul Karim Bangura (AKB) as Team Manager and continued in the other technical areas as required.
The restructuring was immediately accounted for when the team went on to earn more than 8 clean sheets in their subsequent matches towards the end of that season, leaving them in a comfortable position on the league table.
A Year later in his full debut season as the club chairman, he officially built a club house for the Bo Rangers football club as a mechanism to reduce costs and boost players’ moral with the required comfort they deserve.
His first league title was stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019/20.
The astute Babadi Kamara didn’t relent. Instead, he took a new challenge to construct a stadium,while he was also instrumental in Leone Stars’ last and final AFCON qualifyers against Benin in Conakry Guinea.
As sierra Leone was faced with a pandemic crisis, BBD’s timely intervention to take players to Conakry from Freetown to replace the players who had already been sideline, was a big rescue that helped our darling Leone Stars to qualify for 2021 AFCON after a 25 year absence from the showpiece.
Babadi Kamara was later announced as the Leone Stars Team Manager who led the National Team to Cameron with coach John Keister as the Head Coach.
After a few tough years, the man of the people then won his first league title.
It was also followed with a second league title and the opening of the state of the earth stadium in Bo City.
Strategically, BBD resigned as Leone star team manager after the AFCON and focused on his plans to win a third title, so he will be able to learn from the experiences in the past 2 appearance at the continents biggest club stage, to rise up to the task in the third consecutive CAF Champions League.
He stuck to his plans as he has been crowned champion for a third successive time and presently waiting for a 25-minute FA CUP FINAL Decider for a double.
Babadi Kamara is now the only club football chairman in the history of Sierra Leone football to build a club house, construct a 6000 seater stadium, and three consecutive league titles in just four years in office.
Babadi Kamara has been a philanthropist, extending his olive branch to every region and district with both infrastructure or financial aid.
Babadi Kamara, the favorite for the June 2025 SLFA elective congress has done everything to be named the best football administrator for the order of the Rokel or any other football recognition award within sierra Leone and the sub region.
The hopes of football stakeholders and football fans purely lie on this man after the June 2025 SLFA elective congress to solve the many problems Sierra Leone football is faced with.
