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Sources at the club last night said the treasurer was indeed suspended after a meeting held by the club’s finance committee on Tuesday.
“He has been suspended from the club, he is aware of that by now,” said a source close to the treasurer last night.
The meeting came after the executive had a stormy meeting last week in which a majority of the executive members were not happy that Nkomo had withdrawn some money purporting it was owed to him by the club. They argued that the decision to repay him should have been made by the full executive and not him making that decision on his own.
They argued that the club was in a financial mess because of such tendencies.
All hell broke loose with some members saying they had not missed any meeting where finances were discussed and a resolution made that he should borrow the club some money last year. It has also emerged that there was no meeting this year or recently where it was agreed he should get what he is owed.
Sources at the club have said the figure at some stage towards the end of last year stood at $24 000. How the other balance was paid back still remains a mystery.
Nkomo is alleged to have told the meeting last week that he took his money without the executive’s authority because he feared that new members Peter Dube and committee member Charles Moyo would not authorise that he be reimbursed what he is owed since there was no documentary evidence to how he came to be owed.
The loans to the club are alleged to have been made last year.
Last year respected Bulawayo businessman and Southern Africa investment expert Titus Ncube quit the club’s board citing financial imprudence by the treasurer. He was also not happy with the way the club’s debts were being serviced.
All the members of the board are aware of the suspension as communication to all was made on Wednesday, a day after the meeting.
The board members are said to be divided over the issue with some senior members of the club’s custodians on the treasurer’s side.
Nkomo and board of directors secretary and spokesperson Jimmy Ncube claimed to be in the dark about the developments at the club.
“I am not aware of what you are talking about, it might have passed me but like I said, I cannot confirm anything,” said Ncube last night.
Nkomo, who said he was on his way to Bulawayo from the Midlands last night, also professed ignorance about his suspension.
“That is news to me really. Naturally I would have been the first to know about my suspension,” he said.
Impeccable sources at the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League leaders confided to Chronicle Sport though that Nkomo was suspended during the week following allegations that he went against club policy and used money from the Dynamos game without the approval of the club.
“It was agreed that money from gate charges will be distributed according to club priorities but Nkomo went against that and used the money which in actual fact was not for the first time,” said a source.
Club boss Peter Dube refused to comment on the stunning news that his finance man had been suspended.
“That is beyond my jurisdiction if ever anything like that happened, the board would be in a better position to comment,” said Dube who came into office this year after defeating incumbent Themba Ndlela in the February elections.
Dube was secretary in 2000 when former treasurer Lazarus Sibanda was in trouble for misappropriating funds.
He is running the club with a firm hand with all club expenditure accounted for with a view of improving the team’s financial position with inherited debts well over $400 000.
Nkomo’s term runs out at the end of the year.
Online Reporter