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by
George Kasakula, 07 November 2004
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Utter nonsense
Rejecting Walter Nyamilandu’s degree simply because someone wrongly thinks Fam constitution says contestants for executive positions in the association should only present Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) is nonsense in its purest form. The chief advocate of this lopsided reasoning is Joseph Mapwesera. He claims that the association wants MSCE because he knows of people who use their brothers’ certificates. He further says nobody is allowed to bring even a diploma in accountancy or anything, but an MSCE. Only God knows where Mapwesera is getting all these falsehoods on the matter because Fam’s constitution says executive committee members shall hold a minimum of MSCE or its equivalent and may be required to produce it before the returning officers of an election where their name is proposed. Minimum means minimum and that one can have a higher qualification and still qualify. It should be common knowledge to Fam that Nyamilandu was at Chancellor College and no one goes there without an MSCE. My simple advice to Mapwesera is to read the constitution before propagating outright lies in the name of Fam constitution.
Not for supporters
MTL Wanderers supporters have no right to the K3 million that the team has won as prize money after coming second in the Bakili Muluzi Super League. The fact that the supporters are demanding K1 million to offset the other K1 million the club got from former president Bakili Muluzi, which was meant to buy T-shirts but was used for other things by the executive, is greed because the two do not relate. The supporters are just trying to harvest where they did not sow. I am not competent enough to justify what the executive did with Muluzi’s money meant for the T-shirts. But I am aware that the supporters are not being driven by the need to have the T-shirts. They want to share the K1 million for their personal benefits. They have no right to the prize money because supporters’ role anywhere else in the world is to support their team and not to claim anything from its revenue. Demanding a share from any of the team’s revenues be it prize money or gate collections is all theft done in broad daylight. On the contrary the supporters must help in supporting the coffers of their clubs by paying on stadia gates and buying the team’s paraphernalia. I doubt if MTL Wanderers supporters do this. They would rather be parasites of the team.
Police did well
Let me join a chorus of those who have already commended Police for the way they managed security at Kamuzu Stadium last Saturday during the last Super League match involving Bakili Bullets and MTL Wanderers. I do not want to believe that there was no violence at the stadium because Bakili Bullets won the match. I would like the police to be the factor behind the peace. It is soothing to know that not only was security tight but a number of hooligans were arrested. Now what remains is for the thugs who were arrested to go to court and get convicted. It is only then that the savages who want to terrorise innocent people at the stadium will learn to stop the deplorable behaviour. We watch with immerse admiration elsewhere on TV, football fans going to watch matches with their spouses and children. Only a mad person will dare take his wife and children to Kamuzu Stadium. Yet this should never be the case. After all football is a piece of entertainment to be enjoyed by everyone. I hope the police action on Saturday is not a one-off thing. It should be a habit of our police.
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