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Asiagate: Monomutapa sold the match, Mthulisi Maphosa headbutts team manager
16 Jul 2011 at 21:46hrs | Views
THE committee investigating the Asiagate scandal in which Warriors representative sides toured Asia and a European country between August 2007 and January 2010 established during its probe that only Zifa councillor, who was head of delegation when Monomotapa Football Club played Etoile du Sahel in Tunisia noted something fishy during the game.
Headed by Ndumiso Gumede, the body came into being mid last year after the country's supreme sports body, the Sport and Recreation Commission, ordered Zifa to investigate how the Warriors had travelled to Malaysia without authority in December 2009. The committee noted that those who had travelled a number of times became active participants in the scam which resulted in a Warriors' freefall in the Fifa world rankings.
Part of findings reads; " Therefore after one game then they became very active members of the syndicate and that could be the reason why not even one official came back home and made a report officially to Zifa authorities about these evil happenings.
"It is only Onisimo Makwengura on the Monomotapa FC trip to Tunisia, who came back and alerted the authorities that 'something' was very untoward in our football."
Makwangura's evidence was later to be collaborated by former Monomotapa captain Mthulisi Maphosa who assaulted club manager Clayton Munemo over his and head coach Rodwell Dhlakama's alleged roles in the defeat to Etoile du Sahel in a Champions League match in 2009. Munemo is alleged to have been on the phone for the better part of the match.
Former Dynamos and PSL official Godfrey Japajapa, a Solomon Makuvaro, and a Mukweva, both former Zifa councillors, fired national association chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya, Northern Region Zifa boss and the association's board member Solomon Mugavazi, a co-director at Monomotapa and former Monoz manager Bekithemba Ndlovu were among some of the people who travelled as head of delegations and raised no issues about the involvement of betting syndicates.
Jonathan Musavengana, against standing Zifa policy, headed one of the delegations despite being an employee of Zifa. The association policy has always been that councillors travel as head of teams.
Headed by Ndumiso Gumede, the body came into being mid last year after the country's supreme sports body, the Sport and Recreation Commission, ordered Zifa to investigate how the Warriors had travelled to Malaysia without authority in December 2009. The committee noted that those who had travelled a number of times became active participants in the scam which resulted in a Warriors' freefall in the Fifa world rankings.
Part of findings reads; " Therefore after one game then they became very active members of the syndicate and that could be the reason why not even one official came back home and made a report officially to Zifa authorities about these evil happenings.
"It is only Onisimo Makwengura on the Monomotapa FC trip to Tunisia, who came back and alerted the authorities that 'something' was very untoward in our football."
Makwangura's evidence was later to be collaborated by former Monomotapa captain Mthulisi Maphosa who assaulted club manager Clayton Munemo over his and head coach Rodwell Dhlakama's alleged roles in the defeat to Etoile du Sahel in a Champions League match in 2009. Munemo is alleged to have been on the phone for the better part of the match.
Former Dynamos and PSL official Godfrey Japajapa, a Solomon Makuvaro, and a Mukweva, both former Zifa councillors, fired national association chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya, Northern Region Zifa boss and the association's board member Solomon Mugavazi, a co-director at Monomotapa and former Monoz manager Bekithemba Ndlovu were among some of the people who travelled as head of delegations and raised no issues about the involvement of betting syndicates.
Jonathan Musavengana, against standing Zifa policy, headed one of the delegations despite being an employee of Zifa. The association policy has always been that councillors travel as head of teams.
Source - Chronicle
