Alhaji Momodou Dibba, president of The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC), has described his first eleven months in office as a success. The GNOC prexy made these remarks at a press conference held at the Bureau’s Resource Center along the Birtil Harding Highway on Friday 17th February 2012. The press conference was meant to inform the public about what GNOC has done since he took over theleadership.
Mr Dibba made mention of some of the activities his executive has done among which are: the several training and administrative courses offered. The GNOC president renewed his promise that more is expected during the 2012 calendar.
Dibba who’d served as a secretary general to The Gambia Football Association in the late 1970s, hailed the women in sports festival organised in December of last year, which brought together women footballers across the country in a one-week interactive forum.
Continuing the enumeration of his achievements, Dibba said the Gambia Athletics Association has benefitted from an Athletics Coaching Course, whiles the Gambia Boxing Association has benefitted from a donation from the Korean Sporting organization. He added that they also organized the 21st edition of the annual May Day Sports, in a three-day programme in the form of table tennis & volleyball tournaments and athletics.
The GNOC organised the 13th edition of the Sports Banquet and Awards Ceremony in recognition of contributions made by individuals and institutions towards the development of sports in The Gambia.
Dibba also revealed that they inaugurated the Bureau’s Commissions and Committees and the Olympic Day Run in collaboration with the Modern Olympics in June. He added that the GNOC attended the ISAF level 3 regional technical courses in Maputo, Mozambique attended by Pierre Mendy. The All Africa Games was also attended in the same city amongst other international events.
The GNOC president stress that they will not accept any form of misuse of office by way of involving the organisation in visa scams. He warned that as gentlemen and ladies of this very important organization they should keep the good name of the GNOC. He challenged the heads of the associations to take good care of their athletes and to be honest and transparent and honest in all their endeavors to defend the country.  
For the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, the GNOC president said that athletes that will represent the country at the Games must be selected based on a fair and transparent process.
According to Dibba, there are very good athletes across the country who he said must also be given the opportunity to take part in the national selection in order to produce the right athletes that will defend the country at the Games. He also promised that all the athletes that are selected to take part in the Games will be se camped out of the country in 2012 to better prepare them for the event. He added that they will be also engaged more in resource mobilization and athletes training.
For her part, the first vice president and the country’s first and only IOC Member, Beatrice Allen, revealed that after the breakthrough in the women and sports festival, the event will now be an annual event. She said will be working with the GFA to organize annual regional football competitions for women in the regions.
She revealed that Boxer Muhammed Camara has also received a sponsorship package to train in the United Kingdom ahead of the games. Earlier she told the meeting that Ensa Jammeh got a sponsorship to train in UK, and that the GNOC will sponsor the two to participate in the qualifiers in the Kingdom of Morocco in 2012.