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Tadious Manyepo
Online Reporter
ZIFA presidential candidates seem to be on an audacious bid to elbow each other out the race at a time when vetting of their credentials by authorities are in full-throttle.
The polls to usher in a new ZIFA executive will be held on January 25, but all prospective runners in the election from presidential to board members are being assessed by a team of experts with the final list of those who would have come out clean to be released on December 23.
Thereafter the campaigns will be fully blown.
However, with up to 10 presidential aspirants having thrown their names into the hat, individuals have been popping up to “object” the candidature of certain aspirants who they want disqualified on legal and/or legal grounds.
The “objections” are targeting the three front-runners in the election including Martin Kweza, Philemon Machana and Walter Magaya.
Terrence Pachirere yesterday wrote to the ZIFA Ethics and Integrity Committee objecting to the nomination of Kweza, whom they are accusing of having had some legal issues at his workplace which was then put under investigations.
No conviction in any criminal matter was levelled against him.
A K Mugadzaweta is requesting for an investigation into some “financial misconduct” by one of the favourites Machana with the letter dated December 13, and addressed to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission Chair raising a litany of allegations against him purportedly committed when he was still in the ZIFA board between December 2018 and November 2021.
Machana, together with some of his colleagues from that ZIFA board, was recently acquitted of various charges, some of which related to those raised in the letter in question.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter