FAZ on Wednesday declared the Referees Association of Zambia (RAZ) redundant in dealing with match official duties.
However, RAZ chiefs Welly Chikuka says all referees in the country have refused to dealing directly with Faz over refereeing matters.
The announcement was made on Wednesday by Faz communication officer Erick Mwanza at the weekly Faz press briefing held at Football House in Lusaka.
Mwanza said starting this year, all match officials must register with the referees committee at Football House to be headed by Katongo Kabungo.
Mwanza said this was in line with Article 13 of FIFA statues which states that each member association is obliged to establish a referees committee which is directly subordinate to the member association.
“At no level will we deal with RAZ, it s up to RAZ to render themselves relevant to the game,” Mwanza said. “This is not a
FAZ decision, it is according to FIFA statues.”
Meanwhile, Chikuka wondered from which Faz constitution the decision has been reached because RAZ was enshrined in the Faz consititution.
“RAZ is enshrined in the Faz constitution as an affiliate member and a decision to remove it can only be made at a Faz annual general meeting so we do not know on what Faz basis this decision has been reached,” Chikuka said.
“As far all the referees have said in the country they have all agreed to back RAZ.”
RAZ recently back the petition against embattled Faz boss Kalusha Bwalya that saw the boycott of league matches.
That is what you get when you have a FAZ presido who lives in another country. Total confussion. Sack that Lusha and appoint a local hands on Zambian. We have confussion with the natonal team coach, confussion with matches, confussion with FIFA, FAZ fighting everyone and everything now a fight with refs association, pleas give us a break and concentrate on wining matches
let us not pretend that people who running football house are creating problems every day, it is a mad house at faz
Just form your league RAZ with simata & other clubs. countries like Afganistan & myanmar wil help you form Rebel Fifa. Leave these corrupt nkana with their faz pipo.
There is always confusion when you don’t want to follow constitution put in place collectively. This is why there is confusion in Ivory Cost because someone do not want to follow the law. May be we also need force to remove current FAZ.
Dont worry Welly Chikuka.: The league wont take off before Great Galu leaves office! Only teams run by primitive(komboni) executives (Nkana, Konkola Blades) are affiliated to Galu’s FAZ. The rest wont kick the ball before Galu leaves
Erick “Comical Ali” Mwanza. WHO WILL OFFICIATE YOUR MATCHES THEN?
Solution???? Let the FAZ two-thirds form their own league under the sponsorship of KCM since Kalu has opted for MTN.
Thats better, although some signatures were forged. it is 121 affiliates.
These guys never learn. At a time when they are supposed to be making friends with whoever they can, thats when they continue alienating more people. How dull is Kalusha and Co. kanshi? Is he by any chance related to Ka FTJ cuase the stubbonnes and arrogance are just to similar to be a coincidence.
Dont worry Welly Chikuka. The league wont start before Great Galu is KICKED out of office. You see,there are only a few teams run by primitive executives i.e Nkana, Konkola Blades that are affiliated to Galu’s FAZ. So when the Galu’s fixtures are out, only these teams will fulfill them. The rest of us( who are the majority by the biggest of margins) will wait for the VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE before we play. After all, FIFA handed Galu to us.
Ba Kalu. uku kutumpa, even if people dont agree with you doesnt mean you have to use FIFA as a tool to break people. football in Zambia is life and so kanshi utu tubantu ka FTJ na Kalu finshi baimona? surely they cant resign quitely mweeee. phew awe kwena tu fikala tulalimba. kosa nga wali kosa
Dont leave your enemy behind or wil rise to your throat-SHAKA ZULU.
FIFA says this fifa says that fifa says shit fifa says dunk, why can’t FAZ reason with people so that everyone understands. I am never going to waste time reading what the fifa statues stipulate.
Imwe ba LT why are you blocking my postings. You’re stupid kanshi eeye?
This is one of the many reasons the kamanga camp should be using to decampaign the kalu group. If RAZ is an affilliate of FAZ then there is no inconsistence. All that Kalu and his people should have done was to just ask RAZ to “change the name to referees committe”.
These people hate kalu to the bone, he would be foolish to think they no longer want to finish him like they have already done. Deal with them using any means.
More & more referees are now registering at faz. Sorry RAZ, You now have no following.
Mayo, mayo, …..let them cry aloud. Therez nothing new about their threats, Viva Great Kalu.
FAZ can just recruit their own referees, and it is easy. Then Chikuka and his fellow trade unionist can officiate games between Kamanga – Simataa’s teams.
Am happy to see everyone now agreeing that GALU is really rubbish! We thought FIFA solved things but its like thats when more problems are being created by these same du-ll & crooks in FAZ. GALU takwata amano zoona instead of making friends he is even making more enemies when he even knows his only remaining with 3 months b4 he is booted out….
No one has said sorry, hammer them. Let them know the post does not run the game. No kid gloves.
We are sorry then ba Kasengele.
Kalu hammer them , they should know you that you are empower ,simata should go to hel
The nonsense at Football House really stinx.
Why do these kalu guys run to uphold fifa constitution while ignoring the faz constitution. this is a problem if you think uliwamano than your friends. coze the fella thinks he understands fifa better than anyone else. for us whats more immediate to us are faz statutes.
FAZ Is just a sick group. Rubbish!
iwe #10 leave Nkana out of your rantings. namu baila luchelochelo. unasheko ibange!
#3 Very good advice my brother very good advice.
# 6 Thanx, no need for intolerance. Its the ans for pipo who think are superior than others such that they go into Faz using the back door.
Sorry # 28 brother
This rot in Faz must stop,can they safely say they have raised the standard of the game with this nonsense? i think its better we play ichibombwa chabe!
It is such a shame that in Zambia we can’t manage ourselves and follow the same rules that we set for ourselves.Selfishness and greed will never take this country forward.Kalu should resign in the interest of football in this country .What has got to lose after all he will still maintain his fame and fortunate.I don’t think his clinging on to power and trying to bully everyone around is in the interest of Zambian football.He can find other ways of contributing to football in Zambia because as a leader he has totally failed.He has no leadership qualities,that explains why we failed to win even the Africa cup of nations during his tenure as a captain.Arrogance will not take Kalu anywhere football is about people and masses and not personal gratification.Step down Kalu before march…
They asked for it!
Ba #32 dont entice him to resign. Under which captain has zambia ever won the africa cup. If you hate him, not everyone is like you. What have you done for zambia yourself ?
# 34 :In my field alot my friend trained a lot of young zambians managing important institutions right now in my field.I don’t need soccer to contribute to the nation though i was a damn good footballer myself represented the country in the university games twice.Won gold for the country in the SADC university games once my dear.Your chap is a failure who should step down without wasting people ‘s time we have had too much of him,we all love football and don’t need to be treated with this mobile circus
Centralisation of power…FIFA is something else…
Eyes on the “ME”!
good move faz,chikuka is a monkey jst like tamanga and shimata