Don't point any fingers at us over the Fifa bribery scandal, says the Confederation of Southern African Football Associations.
Cosafa have declared themselves above suspicion amid claims by a senior world soccer official that some African officials received bribes to make Sepp Blatter the world's football supremo.
Ismail Bhamjee, the Cosafa president, said that as far as he was concerned, none of his member associations had taken money to help to secure Blatter the Fifa presidency.
Bhamjee sits on the executive committee of both Caf (Confederation of African Football) and Fifa (world football's governing body).
He was reacting to claims by Farah Addo, the Caf vice-president who is also president of Somalia's football association, that bribes were paid to 18 African officials to vote for Blatter.
Addo made his disclosures, published in London and backed by signed confessions, that he was offered $100 000 (now worth about R1,15-million) to switch his vote from European football chief Lennart Johansson to Blatter.
"We at Caf had decided to commit all 51 of our votes to Lennart Johansson from Uefa," he was quoted as saying. "Then I received a phone call from Somalia's ambassador to one of the Gulf states.
"He said: 'I have a friend who you know who wants to offer you $100 000 to switch your vote. Half in cash and the rest in sports equipment. They would send the cash to me, or I could go to the Gulf to collect it'."
Addo said he rejected the money. But he said he witnessed cash being exchanged for votes in Paris.
"I have seen it with my own eyes," Addo was quoted as saying. "The night before the election, people were lining up in the Le Meridien hotel to receive money. Some told me they got $5 000 (now about R75 000) before the vote and the same the next day, after Blatter won.
"I made my own private investigation and found that 18 African voters accepted bribes to vote for Blatter."
Blatter, a Swiss, defeated Johansson, of Sweden, by 111 votes to 80.
"I will not say he stole it, but I can say that the people behind him tried to corrupt Africa," Addo was quoted as saying.
While wary of "commenting on something I have no facts of", Bhamjee said he knew nothing about the bribes.
"I do not know of any Caf executive member receiving bribes," Bhamjee said. "I hear the report says the bribes were offered to national associations, and I can tell you we did not get anything.
"We were anti-Blatter and there is no way we could have received any money from him or any of his people."
According to Bhamjee, Cosafa - of which the South African Football Association (Safa) is a member - signed a petition declaring its support for Johansson.
Bhamjee denounced any form of bribery as bad for the game.
Efforts to get comments from members of Safa proved futile. Most of them were attending a two-day World Cup workshop in Tokyo.
Meanwhile, Sapa-AP reports that European soccer's governing body has called for an investigation into the allegations about Blatter, which were first reported by Britain's Daily Mail.
Fifa officials in Zurich declined to comment, noting that Blatter was on his way back to Switzerland after meetings in Tokyo.
It was uncertain whether Blatter or Fifa would issue a statement.