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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) through the Referees committee has suspended three match officials and warned one for the mishandling matches in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
In a communiqué on the official CAF portal, two of the match officials suspended were involved in the 1-0 win by Tunisia over Libya in Algiers while the other handled South Africa’s 2-1 win over Senegal.
Kenyan referee Davis Omweno, Eritrea’s Berhe O’Michael and Joseph Ordatei Lamptey of Ghana are suspended for three months each while Rwanda’s Theogene Ndagimana has been warned.
According to the charge sheet, Berhe is faulted for the Poor Performance and poor offside decisions including one denying a valid goal by Libya; Omweno has also been faulted for Poor performance, wrong positioning and movement, incorrect identification of fouls and failure to administer some disciplinary sanctions all in the Libya versus Tunisia match.
For Ghana’s Lamptey, he awarded South Africa a wrong penalty for handball despite the fact that the ball never touched the hand of the player and also poor performed according to the report.
Ndagimana who was an assistant referee in the fixture between Libya and Tunisia has been sternly warned.
