Disciplinary body�s snail pace worries BFA
Mqondisi Dube | Friday July 22, 2016 12:38
The committee is chaired by lawyer, Mmoloki Keganne and has Billy Sekgororoane, Dumi Mmualefhe and Bomolemo Selaledi as members.
Sources said the BFA top hierarchy is not amused with the pace of the NDC with some written judgements still pending.
“There is a feeling that the current crisis, particularly around the Ofentse Nato issue can be partly blamed on the NDC. The BFA is just days from its general assembly, but some of the written judgements are still pending,” the source said.
The NDC has presided over one of the most controversial cases football has ever seen. The registration of Ofentse Nato has left football reeling with some questioning the judgement.
Initially, Township Rollers was cleared of any wrong doing when Mochudi Centre Chiefs and Gilport Lions protested before the Botswana Premier League Disciplinary Committee. However, when Gilport Lions’ appealed to the BFA NDC, Rollers was found guilty. Rollers was fined P1,000 for each match Nato had featured in and the NDC referred the matter to the BPL for sanction.
The BPL board convened and ordered the deduction of 10 points from Rollers. But Rollers returned to BFA NDC to argue the order was not procedural.
The NDC then referred other protests from Police XI, Miscellaneous and Chiefs back to the BPL DC in a see-saw case.
Police XI withdrew before the hearing while BPL DC argued the other two cases involving Miscellaneous and Chiefs were complaints rather than protests. Chiefs took the matter further with the NDC and seven points were deducted from Rollers and a play-off ordered.
BFA chief executive officer, Kitso Kemoeng said it was unfortunate that written judgements were taking long.
“It’s unfortunate we had to wait for long for judgements to come from the NDC. We wish to have the outstanding matters closed once and for all,” he said.