"First of all Veron [Mosengo-Omba] called this meeting instead of our chair [Mohammed Zaazi of Morocco] and started the meeting with an introduction [but] three minutes into it, he is talking about suing us if we report that there are issues in the financial statements. [Our relationship] started off well before the time came for us to review and discuss the audit reports and financial statements. We started asking questions, and boom, we were suddenly at war with the secretary general's office."
"At times I had to ask why the head of legal [Felix Majani, who has since resigned] was in [that meeting] and other meetings rather than the head of governance [Hannan Nur]. A committee meeting should only have the members [of the audit and compliance committee] and the secretary general. The head of governance should be there as a secretary, and whoever else needs to be present from the [Caf] office needs to be invited and needs to leave after their subject matter has been exhausted."
"Mosengo-Omba threatened to report all of them to the Fifa ethics committee for what was written in the 2023-24 governa"
Veron Mosengo-Omba, a candidate for president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo football federation (Fecofa), faces allegations of bullying and intimidation by members of CAF’s audit and compliance committee (AACC). The claims focus on a two-hour meeting on 19 October 2024 between Mosengo-Omba and the AACC. During the meeting, he allegedly threatened to sue AACC members and to report them to the FIFA ethics committee after they endorsed a 2023-24 governance, risk and compliance (GRC) report that criticized his ethical conduct. A committee member described a shift from initial cooperation to conflict after questions were raised about financial statements. The member also alleged that meetings included inappropriate CAF officials and that the head of governance should have been present only in a limited role.
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