Zambia: Football Doomed Unless SCZ Intervenes, Says Simataa

22 March 2011

Amakumbi Stars proprietor Simataa Simataa says he foresees a dark cloud on Zambian football unless the Sports Council of Zambia (SCZ) intervenes in the current wrangles before Saturday’s FAZ annual general meeting (AGM) set for Kitwe.

And Simataa has said there is a leadership vacuum in the current FAZ leadership and that was why the two-thirds members were advocating for the vote of no confidence motion to remove the entire executive committee.

Simataa said this during a Muvi Television programme ‘The Assignment’ on Sunday evening the SCZ should come in and resolve matters between now and Friday saying it was difficult to know if the vote of no confidence motion would be included on the agenda.

He said going by the comments the Kalusha Bwalya led executive have been making on the motion, it was difficult to know whether the motion has been maintained on the agenda as directed by world governing body FIFA.

Simataa said the Kalusha group has no right to remove the members’ motion on the agenda as only the council had the powers to approve and reject a motion adding that it was constitutional for motions to be debated at the AGM or council meetings.

He said the SCZ should ensure that both parties if called for a gathering should sit down and see the meeting through and unlike allowing some group to walk out of meeting called the supreme body in charge of all sports disciplines.

When asked how confident he was that the motion of non-confidence would be on agenda with barely a few days go before the AGM, Simataa simply answered ‘ask Kalusha’.

He said that the easiest way out of these wrangles was for the Kalusha group to have accepted that they dissolved themselves following the resignation of the four executive members.

“Corporate governance demanded that if your office is in question, there was no need for such a person to chair a meeting and that this is why we are calling for the SCZ to come in between now and Friday and help resolve matters,” Simataa said.

Simataa said the declining football standards should attributed to the current executive and not the Andrew Kamanga group as them were simply keeping the Kalusha group on their toes.

He has called on the Copperbelt Police command to ensure enough police officers were dispatched to Moba Hotel venue for the AGM because of the threats his group has continued to receive.

He said it was sad that some thugs have been hired to beat up anyone opposed to the Kalusha-led executive saying people should be allowed to exercise their freedom especially during the AGM.

Simataa vowed that nothing will stop his group from achieving their mission this Saturday because the Kamanga executive has more support than Kalusha.

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