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| BB complain to Fifa on Mponda |
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Garry Chirwa, 03 September 2003
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Bakili Bullets have said they are sick and tired of Canadian club Ottawa Wizards’ hide and seek tactics of not honouring defender-cum-midfielder Peter Mponda’s long overdue 6,000 Canadian dollars (about K462,000) transfer fee and has asked the world’s soccer governing body Fifa to intervene.
Bullets’ chair Hassam Jussab said his club has also written the Canadian Football Association (CFA) to assist them in pushing for the transfer fee.
“We have established that Wizards former general manager Jim Lianos cheated us on the issue of payment and we have written both Fifa and the CFA to take action on Wizards,” explained Jussab.
He also said Mponda will not go back to Canada when he returns back home.
“We cannot continue to deal with a club which is not straightforward in its dealings and Mponda will not be going back to Canada.
“I have actually been in touch with him and we are negotiating for a renewable one-year contract with him,” said Jussab.
The club’s vice treasurer Kondi Msungama, who is also the team’s spokesman, added that the Bullets are also demanding interest on Mponda’s transfer fee from Wizards.
“Obviously the fee has accumulated interest because it is over a year now since Mponda joined Wizards, so we are expecting to get not less than K1 million from them.
“Wizards have benefited a lot from Mponda. In fact he is their key player...just recently he scored a golden goal that enabled Wizards to win the Canadian Cup,” said Msungama.
However, the two officials also said Wizards have also not paid a penny for winger McDonald Yobe who was loaned to the North American club early this year.
Mponda himself admitted in an interview through an e-mail message yesterday the issue had become hot.
“I will leave everything in the hands of the Lord, almighty...whatever happens, let it be so, but the issue has to be looked at from both sides of the coin. I just pray that whatever comes up, should work in my favour because I have a family to look after.
“If I am to rejoin Bullets then obviously the offer should be appetising, I don’t want to go through the usual struggles. It takes one to have guts to walk through such situations...anyway I have gone through so many real testing situations, this is just like walking in the park,” said Mponda.
He also hinted that he will be available for the Cosafa Castle Cup final matches against Zimbabwe’s Warriors because the season in Canada will end shortly.
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