Rwanda
Football Association (Ferwafa) has agreed to lend money to Rayon sports
so that they pay their former coach Raoul Shungu salary arrears
totaling $18,943 (Rwf13m) including accumulated fines.
Rayon
Sport Spokesperson Emmanuel Niyomusabye praised the football body for
bailing out the club that risks Fifa penalties including relegation to
the second division if they don’t clear the outstanding debt before 1st
March.
“It
is true that Ferwafa will meet all the payments to Raoul Shungu and we
pay back the money later. We found it the last option to borrow money to
avoid Fifa punishing us,” Rayon spokesperson Niyomusabye told Times
sport.
The
arrears accumulated during Shungu’s second stint at the club in 2008
when he agreed with club officials to use his own money to bring in
players like Honore Kabongo, Bokota Labama, Jean Lomami and Jimmy
Kidega.
Shungu is also said to have used his own money to buy logistics like balls, nets and training kit.
The
Nyanza based side were facing financial problems at the time and agreed
to pay back Shungu but never did so, failing to also pay one month’s
salary to the former Amavubi coach. The Congolese coach was earning
$2500 at the time.
Shungu
left Rayon Sports in May 2009 after falling out with his assistant Jean
Baptiste Kayiranga and the club’s leadership. Kayiranga would later
take over as head coach.
In
September 2009, Shungu wrote to Ferwafa asking for their intervention
as Rayon Sports dragged their feet over payment of his money but the
football governing body didn’t do much.
He
then took the matter to Fifa in 2011 and in 2012 Fifa wrote to Rayon
Sports asking them to pay the money or risk severe punishment. Towards
the end of last year, Fifa again warned Rayon Sports that if they fail
to pay before march 1, then they will be relegated to the second
division and pay double the money they owe Shungu.
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