Rwanda Football Federation is investigating 60 players in connection with illegally acquiring national ID’s and changing their identities.
The federation is working together with Police and the Immigration and Emigration Directorate on the issue, according to the Rwanda Football Federation (Ferwafa) secretary general, Olivier Mulindahabi.
“We are working closely with CID and Immigration to establish if all the 60 players changed their identities or got national IDs without going through proper channels,” Mulindahabi said.
Rwanda was on August 17 disqualified from the 2015 Afcon qualifiers by the competition’s Organising Committee on grounds that they used a player with double identity—striker Dady Birori, who also goes by the name Agiti Tady Etakiama at his Kinshasa-based club AS Vita.
According to Ferwafa and the Ministry of Sports and Culture, all the players who changed their names must go back to their original identities and nationality.
Source: Sokkaa
