FAZ says they are not at fault for the disciplinary hearings and adjudications that have been taking so long to be passed.
The local football mother body’s vice president Rix Mweemba charged yesterday during the media briefing that case hearing was not the prerogative of FAZ, saying that the buck stops at the judicial bodies.
The recent ruling by the disciplinary committee to promote Prison Leopards to the Super league at the expense of Real Nakonde during off season has sparked a wave of discontent.
Leopards had lodged a complaint over the use of ineligible players by the Nakonde outfit. Notwithstanding the delay, they have not been denied justice.
In a press briefing at football house yesterday Mweemba defended the FAZ Executive committee while thrusting the blame on judicial bodies, saying that sometimes they have been sluggish on case hearings.
He however acknowledged that this was an irregularity and further apologized to all soccer lovers.
“Admittedly, our case hearings have been taking too long, which is not good for our game obviously. And that we offer our apologizes to all soccer loving people. It should not be like that, because if those things are done at the end, they may appear that there is some favouritism to which we regret,” he said.
“However, you will realize that the football association of Zambia does not take part in those decision making. There are judicial bodies who are not part of FAZ. And therefore which is why sometimes they take too long to meet to make those decisions.
“But the truth of the matter is that FAZ will only come to act after those judicial bodies have given inn their decisions, of which is an independent mind.”
Meanwhile Mweemba could not confirm that Real Nakonde have appealed against the decision to promote Real Nakonde and further revealed that all case hearings on the disciplinary committee’s desk were exhausted.
