THE Highlanders Football Club board was due to meet last night to discuss the fate of treasurer Odiel Nkomo. Indications are that he will be told to leave office following reports of alleged financial irregularities during his tenure. BY THE SPORTS REPORTER
Nkomo allegedly paid himself $6 600 from the Premiership football club’s coffers without authority after Bosso made a profit of $40 500 from their match against Dynamos at Barbourfields Stadium on July 22.
Contacted for comment by NewsDay Sport yesterday, board secretary Jimmy Ncube denied that Nkomo’s fate was to be decided last night.
“We are having a meeting tonight (yesterday), but it is just an ordinary board meeting. The issue of the treasurer is still with the auditors,” he said.
A reliable source said Nkomo would be told to leave office with immediate effect following recommendations by the finance committee. The source said Nkomo was aware of that.
However, Nkomo denied any knowledge on his future at the club: “I am not aware of anything like that.”
The Highlanders treasurer is alleged to have unilaterally withdrawn funds from the club’s treasury saying the money was owed to him by the club.
Highlanders have been riddled by financial problems resulting in players going on industrial action recently.
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Players were demanding $15 000 as winning bonuses for three matches and only returned to training after a well-wisher paid $5 000.
That was just three days before a crucial Mbada Diamonds Cup quarter-final tie against Monomotapa, which they lost 3-2 at the Colliery. They bounced back last Sunday to draw 1-1 with Dynamos in Harare before beating Buffaloes 1-0 at Barbourfields on Wednesday.
Nkomo’s term of office is expiring at the end of the year, together with that of vice-chairman Sikhanyiso Moyo and both face elections on the last Sunday of January, according to the club’s constitution.
Last year, one of Highlanders long-serving board members, businessman Titus Ncube, stepped down from the club citing mediocrity and lack of prudence within the club’s management.
