Close to N$400k down the drain

LIMBA MUPETAMI

WINDHOEK

Former NFA president Frans Mbidi has lost his appeal case against the now dissolved Fifa Normalisation Committee (NC), and with it close to N$400 000 in costs.

The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) ruled that it had no jurisdiction in the appeal filed by Mbidi after he had been denied re-election.

The appeal cost the former boss of the local football governing body close to N$400 000, those close to him say.

Mbidi filed the appeal after the Fifa Normalisation Committee called for nominations of NFA executive committee members.

The committee received 68 nominations, including that of Mbidi, for the election held on 22 February at the 28th NFA congress.

But the NC, chaired by Hilda Basson-Namundjebo, informed Mbidi that he was ineligible because he had already served two consecutive terms on the NFA executive committee.

This exclusion irked Mbidi, who then filed a complaint with the CAS in Switzerland

Mbidi was an executive committee member of the NFA from 2010 to 2014.