Muhazi United
assistant coach, Mugiraneza Jean Bapiste ‘Migi’, has been banned from all
football-related activities in Rwanda for one year for match-fixing.
Voices circulated
on social media after the match between Musanze FC and Kiyovu Sports on March
15, 2025, in which Migi was heard asking defender Shafiq Bakaki to beat them.
In requesting
this service, Migi promised the player that he would take him to Kiyovu Sports
next season because he will be coaching there.
This led to Migi
and the Musanze FC player being summoned by the FERWAFA Ethics Committee on
March 22, 2025.
Before appearing
before the Committee, however, Migi wrote to the Muhazi United team where he
was the Assistant Coach, saying that what happened was not to ask the player to
win, but rather to test him before taking him to this Eastern club.
In conducting an
investigation, FERWAFA summoned the management of Kiyovu Sports and Musanze FC,
the Assistant Coach of this Northern club, Imurora Japhet 'Drogba' and its
player Batte Sheif.
Those summoned
appeared before the Ethics Commission on April 6, 2025 at the FERWAFA
headquarters.
Information IGIHE
learned at the time was that Batte Sheif was the one who recorded the audio and
went outside when Imurora Japhet's name was mentioned in the Migi na Bakaki
interview, where the Muhanzi United Assistant Coach, who was recently suspended
due to an ongoing investigation, said: "What can I do for you? And you
know I don't like Drogba, you know what he did to me. You also know what he did
to you."
The decision of
the Ethics Commission IGIHE received on Tuesday states that it "sanctions
Mugiraneza Jean Baptiste alias Migi by suspending him from participating in any
football-related activity and banning him from all football grounds in Rwanda for
a period equivalent to one (1) year and paying a fine of one hundred thousand
(100,000) Rwandan francs from the date of notification of the decision."
The Commission
reminded that “anyone who is not satisfied with this decision has the right to
appeal within two (2) days of being notified.”
On the other
hand, one of the leaders of the Rwanda Football Association (FERWAFA) told
IGIHE that it is not over yet, but they expect the Migi case to be concluded
this week.
The FERWAFA
Secretariat is the one who announces the decisions taken by the commissions of
this Association and is the one who calls all those who attend.
