Stop your specious and racist generalizations. Scalping and
forgery aren't what Africa knows best.
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AND AFRICANS DO WHAT THEY KNOW BEST
From: "Edward Mulindwa"
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Date: Wed, June 21, 2006 8:32 pm
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| Ex-Ferwafa official jailed over WC
tickets |
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| By Emma Nsekanabo
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| Wednesday, 21 June 2006
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Former local soccer governing body vice-president Celestin
Musabyimana has landed in prison on charges of forging Federation
documents to secure 200 Fifa World Cup tickets worth 29,000 Euros from
the international soccer governing body, FIFA. According to sources
within the Federation of Rwanda Football Associations (Ferwafa),
Musabyimana, |
who was a member of the old executive that left office after the
January 12 Ferwafa elections, back-dated and submitted documents to
Fifa indicating that he was still mandated to represent the Federation,
yet he was not.
Subsequently, reliable sources from the
federation told The New Times, that Musabyimana connived with one Vogt
Armin, residing in Switzerland (Fifa headquarters), to secure and sell
the tickets on the black market in Europe, but that the deal backfired
when Fifa told Ferwafa that Musabyimana had collected the tickets on
Rwanda’s behalf.
The tickets are availed to all national
associations, to be sold on behalf of Fifa and no individual can easily
secure rights to acquire tickets from Fifa for reselling.
Following
the recent saga, other sources said that Musabyimana could have
pocketed millions from the past two World Cups, in his capacity as
Ferwafa vice-president.
Musabyimana, who has been denied bail, is
locked up at the Kigali Central Prison famously known as
‘1930’ and the former Ferwafa VP, who will soon appear in
court, risks losing his position as an executive member representing
the Council of East and Central African Football Association (Cecafa)
on the Confederation African Football (Caf) Board.
Musabyimana
becomes the second African soccer official to get involved in the World
Cup ticket saga, after Botswana’s Ismail Bhamjee, who sold
tickets for a World Cup match involving England three times their face
value.
Bhamjee is a member of the powerful 25-member FIFA Executive
Committee and he admitted selling 12 Category One tickets for last
Thursday’s England v Trinidad and Tobago match for 300 euros (380
dollars) each. They tickets had a face value of 100 euros.
Bhamjee
was forced to resign immediately from all World Cup-related duties and
ordered to leave Germany immediately.
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