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At the time, Lusaka Dynamos paid KCCA FC $115,800 (shs431M); since the first payment, Lusaka Dynamos has yet to pay the balance of $42,000 (bout Shs153M).
In August 2017, Ugandan international Joseph Ochaya joined Lusaka Dynamos on a two-deal from KCCA FC in a deal worth $120,000 (sh432m).
At the time, Lusaka Dynamos paid KCCA FC $115,800 (shs431M); since the first payment, Lusaka Dynamos has yet to pay the balance of $42,000 (bout Shs153M).
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Ochaya has since moved to TP Mazembe and now plying his trade at Arab Contractors in Egypt.
FIFA had ruled in 2019 that Lusaka Dynamos pay KCCA FC what they owe the Ugandan side, a directive the former should have adhered to.
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"We got the FIFA ruling in October 2019," KCCA FC CEO Anisha Muhoozi told Pulse Sports before adding.
"Where FIFA ruled that Lusaka should pay us, we started following up with Lusaka, but Covid held everything."
"Until, recently, when we had that the company was going into liquidation, so we inquired because we had a pending business transaction with them."
Muhoozi added: "We got another lawyer pursuing the case. Yesterday, FIFA came up with a new ruling that they (Lusaka Dynamos) should pay us."
According to lawyer Timothy Kajja, the ruling means that Lusaka Dynamos can only make local or international transfers transact after they clear the debt with kCCA FC.
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"Football clubs are subject to both civil and football laws," Kajja told this reporter before adding.
"Under the laws of Zambia, KCCA FC's claim is registered, and the liquidators have already acknowledged this. Subject to other priority claims, KCCA ought to be paid by the liquidators."
"In a parallel approach, under football law, the football successor of Lusaka Dynamos will also have to clear KCCA FC's debt first (if the same is not already paid by the liquidators) before going ahead to conduct any business," Kajja added.
The Ochaya case is not the only case that KCCA FC is pursuing; the other is of striker Shaban Muhammed, who transferred to Moroccan giants Raja Casablanca for a reported $130,000 (shs484m at the time) on a three-year deal, according to Market transfer.
Shaban lasted only a year at Raja as his contract was terminated in the first year with claims that the former Onduparaka and Vipers forward had breached it.
The precedent set by FIFA yesterday opens up an avenue through which many clubs and agents, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa, can claim their unpaid monies.
Kajja also stated that FIFA had launched a new portal through which players, clubs, and agents can quickly and more cheaply access sports justice through their legal representatives, that are accorded accounts via the FIFA legal portal after prior approval by the FIFA secretariat.
"Gone are the days where parties were forced to inject volumes of money to access sports justice outside Uganda."
"One can now handle a FIFA case without setting foot in Zurich. Everything can be started and closed via the new legal portal." The sports lawyer concluded.
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