PHILLIP CHIYANGWA’S COMMENT TO THE PETITION BY LIFELONG FOOTBALLERS’ TRUST OF ZIMBABWE.
I am normally incompatible with dubious and irrelevant people who seek attention by making statements that mention my name. However in light of the decision I have made to humbly offer myself for the office of the President of the Zimbabwe Football Association I consider it in the public interest to cast light on very clear issues which have been distorted by merchants of darkness purporting to be interested in the affairs of Zimbabwean football.
Firstly the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) is an exclusively a member based organisation and in terms of the ZIFA Constitution a member is crisply defined as:
“a legal or natural person that has been admitted into membership of ZIFA by the Congress”.
The purported Lifelong Footballers’ Trust of Zimbabwe (LIFTZ) is clearly not a member of ZIFA. It is existentially and functionally a consortium of disgraced individuals who have been convicted of indulging in criminal shenanigans and who have received bans from both ZIFA and FIFA. It is an epitome of corrupt gangsters of charlatans who have not only failed in football but in life, business and any even corrupt activities. This is most certainly true of the alter ego of the organisation one Francis Zimunya a vile character synonymous with the corrupt image of Zimbabwean football.
The LIFTZ lacks locus standi to participate or comment in any football activity or matter in Zimbabwe. Apart from the shameful scars left by its proprietors in the governance of football affairs in Zimbabwe, the organisation lacks legitimacy, credibility and common decency. It is a matter of public record that Francis Zimunya is disqualified from participating in football matters in Zimbabwe due to his shady history. It is most ironic that he has the temerity of joining hands with other failures of his ilk in making unfounded and groundless allegations against me.
The allegations made by LIFTZ manifests outright illiteracy in reading the Constitution of ZIFA and in understanding the invaluable contribution i have made to football and the Zimbabwean society at large. None of the nonsensical allegations can stand to scrutiny, for instance the sham organisation confuses Old Citrus Farm Football Club and a non-existent entity they allege to be “Mazoe Citrus”. These failures are so desperate as to fabricate fictitious fallacies believing in them and publicly parading their feigned lunacy. I will not stoop so low as to allow for a moment my name to be mentioned in the same context with the proven enemies of Zimbabwe.
None of the so called members of LIFTZ (which i think is a misspelling of looters) have any status, standing or position in any of the formal structures of football in Zimbabwe. It is a pack of wolves who cannot even fit into sheepskin by all manner of pretence. LIFTZ has not made any contribution to Zimbabwean football and cannot be allowed to pollute our sports matters with their hogwash.
It is clear that the laughable allegations being made by LIFTZ are an integral part of strategy by those who have nothing to offer to Zimbabwe football prop up their candidate who is a man of an equally shady football administrative history, who despite lacking a Zimbabwean passport is vying to be considered as a leader of Zimbabwean football. The ultimate objective is to perpetuate plunder and destruction of not just football but the reputation of the Zimbabwean society at large. We shall not allow their evil machinations to see the light of day.
P.C