THE suspension of former Zifa vice president and Highlanders chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede has no sinister motive as a precedence has already been set in Zimbabwe, Sportszone reveals.

Gumede was on Monday evening suspended from all football activities together with the Premier Soccer League chairman Peter Dube for violating different sections of the Zifa constitution.

“The Zimbabwe Football Association has forthwith provisionally suspended Ndumiso Gumede from any role, position or status in association football in Zimbabwe.

“The Zifa executive committee resolved that in terms of Article 34 (n) of the Zifa constitution, Gumede has to immediately relinquish all associations with football related activities as a result of gross violations of the Zifa constitution and undermining a constitutionally-elected leadership.

“Gumede wrote a letter to the world football governing body (Fifa) peddling falsehoods about a legitimate football leadership, seeking to dissolve a constitutionally-elected executive committee.

“Gumede further sought to destabilise smooth football administration by establishing a bogus parallel structure which operated as a ‘Zifa Working Committee’ in a foiled attempt to seize control of association football from Zifa.

“In that vein, Gumede ceases to be a member of the global football family since he is now barred from representing or associating himself with Zifa or any of its members,” said a statement from Zifa.

However documents in possession of Sportszone show that on August 6, 2013, then Central Region boss Patrick Hokonya was hauled before a Zifa disciplinary committeee charged with contravening section 56 (2) of the Zifa constitution.

In the hearing that was conducted in Bulawayo, Hokonya, who was already suspended on match fixing allegations, was alleged to have written a letter of complaint to Fifa on January 9, 2012 through his lawyers    Messrs Moyo and Nyoni, against Zifa directly to Fifa which was in violation of the Zifa constitution.

Gumede is a serving match commissioner under the jurisdiction of Zifa.