adminZIFA chief executive officer, Jonathan Mashingaidze has issued a statement below shedding light on the events leading to the suspension of the Zifa finance committee last week.
At the back of unethical interviews that are in breach of basic corporate governance practices granted to the media by some Zifa finance committee members lately, the mother body indefinitely suspended the erring committee members on June 17.
The committee chairperson, who was also a Zifa board member had been suspended earlier for taking part in unsanctioned meetings aimed at disrupting the smooth running of national football business and leaking confidential information to the media.
Finance committee members who have been suspended are Washington Mehlomakhulu and Eric Mvududu.
Joseph Musariri resigned a few months ago.
The full statement reads:
All standing committees of the association are appointed by the Zifa board to service various arms of the arms of the association. The standing committees are appointed in terms of section 41 of the Zifa constitution.
The standing committees are governed by the Zifa board in terms of communication and general conduct.
The association has noted alarming levels of indiscipline and intransigency demonstrated by the suspended finance committee whose chairman Benard Gwarada was also suspended pending appearing before the Zifa disciplinary committee.
The interviews granted to both the electronic and print media by the vice chairperson Mr Mehlomakhulu are indicative of lack of appreciation of basic corporate governance tenets on the part of the finance committee.
Mehlomakhulu’s excitement before the television camera underline the need to have Zifa standing committees manned by football persons.
Discussing policy issues in the press is the preserve of the Zifa president and selected members of the secretariat, hence the association has seen it fit to suspend the overzealous finance committee.
The board has also realised that the finance committee had been turned into a boys’ club by its suspended chairperson who made sure the committee was made up of his friends and cronies from outside Zifa structures.
The association is keen to see the finance committee manned by members drawn from affiliate organs.
All our affiliates have members with strong financial backgrounds and these will be granted the opportunity to be part of this strategic committee.
In terms of accounting and financial standards and ethics, no one is allowed to release or discuss finances of their organisation or former organisation to the press and we are baffled that the same individuals who were claiming that they were not getting information from Zifa are now discussing Zifa finances in the press with reckless abandon.
Zifa reserves the right to take legal action against individuals who are maligning the integrity of the association.
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