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| MSCE not enough —Centre’s affiliates |
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Leonard Sharra, 24 May 2004
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Football Association of Malawi’s Central Region affiliates have recommended against removing the Malawi Schools Certificate of Education (MSCE) requirement in the Fam constitution and allowing politicians to serve in the football governing body.
Southern Region-based affiliates recently recommended that the MSCE requirement be taken away from the constitution and that politicians be allowed to serve in the body’s executive committee.
But a meeting of Central Region based members, who gathered at Lilongwe Community Centre last week, agreed to say no to this.
Instead the affiliates recommended that the MSCE requirement be replaced with a higher qualification like a diploma in future. They also recommended that the MSCE requirement should be extended to affiliates.
“Members felt the MSCE requirement is too low for one to run football at international level. They said the requirement should be replaced with a diploma in future. For affiliates, we said MSCE should be the minimum requirement,” said Central Region Football League vice chairman David Dube who attended the meeting.
On the issue of allowing politicians to serve in the association, Dube said: “That is a non-starter. We all know that politicians are too powerful and most Malawians are corrupt. The meeting felt if we allow politicians to serve in Fam, members would be bent to accept anything that the politicians may suggest.”
Also commenting on the meeting outcome, Malawi Football Coaches Association (MFCA) general secretary Peterkins Kayira said: “Members in Fam mix with professors, doctors and other high profile figures and MSCE may not be enough qualification. If one feels he/she is capable of running football but does not have MSCE, let him/her sit as an external candidate.”
The meeting also resolved that the clause that bars affiliates from nominating more than one member be removed from the Fam handbook.
“What that clause means is that an affiliate can only contribute one member to the executive. This is detrimental to football development because one affiliate can have two or three people with the guts and qualifications to run football. As long as one has the guts, members felt the nominations should be done on merit,” said Dube.
But the Central Region members concurred with their Southern Region counterparts that Fam holds fresh elections to elect a new executive.
Fam executive members McCollins Chivunde and Steve Msambila were ordered out of the meeting when issues concerning them were being discussed.
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