{"id":56685,"date":"2017-11-24T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T10:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=56685"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T10:32:21","slug":"fresh-hearing-on-nomads-mzuni-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/11\/24\/fresh-hearing-on-nomads-mzuni-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh hearing on Nomads-Mzuni saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super League of Malawi (Sulom) Appeals\u2019 Committee has ordered a fresh hearing on the circumstances that led to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/mzuni-refuse-to-play-against-nomads\/\">failure of the TNM Super League match involving Be Forward Wanderers and Mzuni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sulom Appeals\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/be-forward-wanderers-appeal-against-sulom\/\">Committee, which met on November 18 in Lilongwe after an appeal by Wanderers<\/a>, dismissed the league governing body\u2019s Disciplinary Committee verdict on the match, which failed to take place at Balaka Stadium on November 4 after Mzuni officials and coaches were allegedly assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>The Appeals\u2019 Committee, comprising Khumbo Soko, Khumbuzine Dossi and Mwabi Kaluba, punched holes into the Disciplinary Committee\u2019s handling of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Appeals\u2019 Committee is of the firm view that in respect of incidences at Balaka stadium on November 4 2017, justice can only be attained if parties are heard by a Disciplinary Committee that conducts the hearing in strict compliance with Article 36 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verdict of the Disciplinary Committee made on November 10 2017 in respect of the incidences at Balaka Stadium on November 4 2017 during the planned match between Be Forward Wanders Football Club and Mzuni Football Club is hereby set aside to accord Be Forward Wanderers and Mzuni FC the 72 hours\u2019 notice requirement as well as the charges as provided for in Article 36 of the Sulom Constitution,\u201d reads part of the determination.<\/p>\n<p>The Disciplinary Committee had ruled that the Nomads and Mzuni should play at a neutral venue, prompting Wanderers to challenge the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The Nomads challenged the verdict on the grounds that there was no sufficient evidence, the composition of the committee was compromised and that Wanderers were not accorded a fair hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Disciplinary Committee also fined Wanderers K1.1 million and Mzuni K1 million for perpetrating the brawl that resulted in some of the visitors\u2019 coaches and officials being injured.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers General Secretary, Mike Butao, welcomed the Appeals Committee\u2019s determination cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably the first time [that] a club has ever appealed in Malawi football and won the appeal. This will encourage clubs to even play under protest when they feel wronged, as Mzuni ought to have done, if indeed they were abused or roughed up as they claim<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope [that] true justice will continue to take its course as we see this issue to its logical conclusion. Our contention still remains that Mzuni did not turn up for the match and the football result should have counted at that time,\u201d Butao said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super League of Malawi (Sulom) Appeals\u2019 Committee has ordered a fresh hearing on the circumstances that led to the failure of the TNM Super League match involving Be Forward Wanderers and Mzuni. Sulom Appeals\u2019 Committee, which met on November 18 in Lilongwe after an appeal by Wanderers, dismissed the league governing body\u2019s Disciplinary Committee verdict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56687,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56685\/revisions\/56687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}