Simba dismiss Basena claims
Tanzanian Vodacom Premier League side Simba insist they have will not compensate sacked Ugandan coach Moses Basena.
Quoting SuperSport.com’s story on Basena claiming damages for his unceremonious dismissal from his seven-month job, Tanzanian publication the Daily News reported that Simba actually had nothing to compensate Basena for.
Basena early this week told SuperSport.com Simba terminated his two-year contract and for that matter must pay him three moths’ salary as per contractual agreement.
But the Tanzanians argue that in fact Basena deposed himself. The club’s Information Officer Ezekiel Kamwaga told Daily news that Simba did not sack the former Uganda Cranes assistant coach.
Instead, Kamwaga said, Basena had failed to comply with the requirement to submit his coaching certificates as required by the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF).
“Basena went to self-exile, we never sacked him. We told him to submit his coaching certificates so that he could get TFF’s coaching licence and working permit in the country but he never submitted any,” said Kamwaga.
When SuperSport.com contacted Basena on phone on Friday, Basena was perplexed.
“There is nothing much I can say for now,” he said, “I’m somewhere tending to some pressing matters. I will get in touch with them once am done here.”
Basena was replaced by Serbian Milovan Cirkovic.