
ZIFA Suspends CAPS Board Chairman
CAPS United board Chairman Advocate Lewis Uriri has become the latest football administrator to be suspended by ZIFA.
Advocate Uriri was appointed spokesperson of a PSL Emergency Committee on Saturday at a PSL meeting held in Harare.
The Emergency Committee is running the league’s affairs in the wake of Chairman Peter Dube’s suspension.
Dube was on Monday suspended for allegedly disrupting proceedings during a heated congress meeting on October 29, where the Zifa assembly shockingly reversed a decision they made on July 25 last year, which paved way for the relegation of two teams from the elite league this year.
The Highlanders chairman, is accused of interrupting formal congress proceedings and addressing delegates without seeking permission from ZIFA chairman Philip Chiyangwa.
The Zimbabwe Football Association says Advocate Uriri's suspension from association football is with immediate effect.
ZIFA alleges Advocate Uriri breached provisions of Article 13 (a) and 31 (i) of the ZIFA constitution by convening an unsanctioned meeting of Premier Soccer League clubs on 29 October 2016.
At the same meeting held at Rainbow Towers, Uriri said to have incited PSL clubs’ representatives to defy a decision on promotion and relegation passed by the ZIFA congress earlier on the same day.
Advocate Uriri is also claimed to have breached Article 17 (2) of the ZIFA constitution by urging PSL Clubs to act against a decision passed by the ZIFA congress.
In that vein, Advocate Uriri has to immediately relinquish all roles associated with association football in Zimbabwe until the next ZIFA congress.
Meanwhile, the PSL leadership said it would be left with no choice but to take ZIFA to the Court of Arbitration for Sports if the national association continues to insist on four teams being relegated.
In a 32-page document addressed to Chiyangwa, PSL questions the wisdom of changing the relegation format with just two games to go.
A September 2015 Zifa assembly agreed to relegate two teams and promote the same number after play-offs involving winners of the four Zifa regional Division One leagues.
However, Zifa councillors voted to dump the 2015 resolution and instead relegate four sides from the PSL and promote four in a chaotic meeting last month.
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