A Kenyan referee, Davies Omweno, has been barred from officiating for three months after being ruled erroneous by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
CAF was investigating a match he officiated on Friday 11 November during the World Cup qualifier pitting Libya against Tunisia.
A communique dispatched by the African football managers indicates that the referee had poor performance and positioning in the game, incorrect identification of fouls in the match and failure to administer some disciplinary measures.
He was not the only one sanctioned after the game; his first assistant referee Berhe Michael from Eritrea is also suspended for three months for poor decisions and wrong offside calls, one that denied Libya a goal.
Second assistant, Rwandan Theogene Ndagijimana had a lesser punishment as he was just warned after being ruled to have had wrong calls on offside positions and poor performance.
The suspension handed to Omweno all but rules him out of the 2017 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) competition in Gabon which kicks off in two months.