ST JOHN’S – Gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (AB­FA), Ro­han Hec­tor has made it clear he is not fac­ing any firearm charges fol­low­ing re­ports that a man bear­ing a sim­i­lar name ap­peared in court in An­tigua on Wednes­day.

In a state­ment is­sued on Fri­day, he said while the per­son charged with the of­fences was named Ro­han Hec­tor, it was not him.

Hec­tor has served as gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the AB­FA since 2018.

“I wish to ad­dress and clar­i­fy re­cent pub­lic con­fu­sion sur­round­ing news re­ports re­lat­ed to an in­di­vid­ual named “Ro­han Hec­tor” who ap­peared be­fore the court on Wednes­day, May 7, 2025, in con­nec­tion with firearm charges.

“Let me state un­equiv­o­cal­ly: I am not the in­di­vid­ual in­volved in this mat­ter. My name is Ro­han Patrice Hec­tor, and I cur­rent­ly serve as Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (AB­FA),” the state­ment read.

“While the sim­i­lar­i­ty in name has un­der­stand­ably caused con­cern, I want to as­sure the pub­lic, our foot­ball com­mu­ni­ty, and all stake­hold­ers that I have no con­nec­tion what­so­ev­er to the in­ci­dent or the in­di­vid­ual in ques­tion.

“I am deeply grate­ful for the many mes­sages, calls and ex­pres­sions of con­cern I’ve re­ceived. Your sup­port re­in­forces the val­ues I stand by. I re­main com­mit­ted to up­hold­ing the high­est stan­dards of in­tegri­ty, both in my per­son­al life and in my role with the AB­FA. As the say­ing goes, “there is more than one dog named Bob.” In this case, name sim­i­lar­i­ty has caused un­for­tu­nate con­fu­sion, but facts and char­ac­ter speak for them­selves.

“Thank you for your un­der­stand­ing, and I en­cour­age con­tin­ued sup­port for the on­go­ing pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment of foot­ball in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da,” the state­ment fur­ther added.

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