KARACHI, Sept 12: The leader of seven elected directors, Haji Shafi Mohammad Jamote, has suggested that a non-political figure should head the Fishermen Cooperative Society to save it from further financial disaster.

He was of the view that under the present circumstances only a non-political and a non-controversial figure could manage the affairs of the Society which was on the verge of financial collapse.

The Ibrahim Haideri Village based senior most representative of the Fishermen Cooperative Society, Shafi Jamote, said that the FCS had always suffered due to induction of political figures in the Society by the ruling parties.

He was talking to Dawn on the FCS leadership crisis lingering on since Aug 4 elections in which his group had clinched all the seven seats. He said that the crisis intensified when the first meeting of the 15-member board which was scheduled for Aug 10 was postponed without assigning reason.

Shafi Jamote warned that any attempt to impose a political leadership on the FCS would have serious implications. He said that it would be neither in the interests of the fishermen community nor the government.

Considering the past experiences, he said that political leaders did nothing for the welfare of fishermen instead they recruited their favourites for lucrative jobs of the Society.