Ladies and Gentlemen, Basmal was approached by Blazers with an appeal on the decision taken by Cezobal to fine Blazers an amount of MK15k.
Their arguments in summary were as follows 1- As a sportsman, if you say you are tired and cannot continue with a game, you cannot be forced to continue the game. 2- In international Basketball, it is inadvisable to play 2 games in the same day let alone 2 within a 3 hr period. 3- The team was adequately punished by giving up their right to continue with the tournament. As Basmal, we felt that we needed to make an independent analysis of the whole situation. We therefore decided to exclude all interested parties. These were Jacob Chikoya, Interim president of Cezobal and one of the people that made the decision to institute the fine Daud Suleman, Interim Secretary of Cezobal and member of Mimbulu George Phiri, interim Treasurer of Cezobal (at the time) and member of Blazers The following were consulted in this decision making process Oscar Kanjala, President of Basmal Roy Kachale, Secretary of Basmal To ensure independence, we also incorporated help form other non interested parties as follows Chimwemwe Mhone, President of Nozobal Willard Kachikwati, Secretary of Nozobal Hope Chisamanga, Secretary of Sozobal The unanimous decision was as follows The punitive measures instituted are not proportional to the offence committed, the forfeiture of the game was punishment enough. Therefore, 1- Blazers should be reinstated into the A league with no points deducted from any of their league games 2- There can be no restriction on the participation of any of their players in the National team or the all-stars 3-Since there is no written rules that state that a team that forfeits a game be fined MK15k, or indeed a precedence of the same, Blazers should not pay the fine. If Cezobal wants to include that as part of their new rules, they can do so but not retrogressively. I am sure that this clears all the bad air that was surrounding this issue. Should anyone have any queries, please feel free to contact me. Roy Kachale Secretary Basmal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://soyapi.com/owinna/cezobal2008 =================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central Zone Basketball League" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cezobal?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
