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tasked with probing the Asiagate scam, twisted his oral submissions to suit certain football political agendas.
In an interview, recorded on tape here on Saturday, the Masvingo United coach said there was a clear distortion of what he told the Zifa investigating committee and his submissions had been politicised.
Masomere was quoted, at length, by the Zifa investigating committee making sensational claims, where he dragged a number of people, into the Asiagate scam.
The Masvingo United coach also apologised to former Zifa councillor, Steve Nyoka, whom he dragged into the Asiagate scam by wrongly claiming that the Harare businessman was the Head of Delegation when the Warriors traveled to Vietnam in 2007.
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Nyoka, who has since proved that he never traveled to Asia, has already instituted legal proceedings against Masomere and the Zifa investigating committee.
Journalist Hope Chizuzu has also gone to lengths to prove that his submissions to the committee, led by Zifa vice-president Ndumiso Gumede, were also twisted.
Chizuzu recorded his appearance before the Zifa panel, which didn’t use vice recorders in its interviews and depended on its secretary Benedict Moyo to capture the notes, and showed last week that there were serious differences between what he told the committee and what was in the Asiagate report.
Masomere said although he didn’t want to comment on specific issues, because he had been advised not to fight his case in the newspapers, he wanted to make it clear that some of his submissions had been twisted by the investigating committee.
“Some of the submissions in the Asiagate report are distorted and people need to write the correct things,” said Masomere.
“I do not want to comment much because I have been advised not to fight what comes in the papers.
“The issue about Asiagate should not be politicised.”
Masomere, however, conceded that he made a grave mistake in claiming that Nyoka was the Warriors’ Head of Delegation during the trip to Vietnam.
“I made a mistake. I am apologising to Nyoka. He is my friend but I am really sorry for the damage that could have happened to his good name,” said Masomere.
“It is just that his name came into my mind as I once travelled with him for some trip a long time ago.
“I hope it did not damage his good reputation. I erred and I am also human.
“Please kindly take my apology and I wish if I still had his number I could have called him. There is a trip that I once went with him to Ghana when I was still the Dynamos coach. We lost 4-0 in the first half. The problems we faced were the same, that is arriving in the morning and playing a few hours later. When I submitted my report I just thought I had gone to that trip with him as his name just came to mind.”
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