By Mohammed Fajah Barrie BBC Sport, Freetown

Thompson says Kabbah did not dissolve the FA

Sierra Leone's football crisis has taken a further turn, as the FA chairman insisted he is still in charge of the country's football affairs.

Justice Tolla Thompson, chairman of the embattled Sierra Leone FA (SLFA) has told Fifa that the country's president, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, had not dissolved the SLFA's executive, as had been reported last week.

I'm still in control of the FA Sierra Leone FA chairman Tolla Thompson

"I have informed Jerome Champagne, the Fifa deputy general secretary, that it was not true my executive council was dissolved.

"I'm still in control of the FA," Thompson told the BBC Sport website in an exclusive interview.

"What I understood from the meeting with President Kabbah was that a seven-man committee will be formed to look into the Sierra Leone FA's constitution, with a view of going to congress in May.

"President Kabbah included two members of my executive in the committee, which, in my view, is an indication that my executive has not been dissolved.

"The president intervened to help settle the problems that created the impasse within the football family and not to dissolve my executive.

"Being a lawyer, the president knows that politicians cannot interfere in football matters," Thompson said.

But Alhaji Unisa Alim Sesay, who was at the meeting with Kabbah, claimed that Thompson is not painting a true picture of what transpired during last week's meeting with the country's president.

"We decided to withdraw our case in court [against the FA executive] because the Justice Tolla Thompson led executive was being dissolved," Sesay said.

"Thompson must be dreaming if he thinks he is still the president of the SLFA.

"He cannot impose himself on football in the country."