Banned Siwale reflects on constitution lacunas

AS FAZ goes to the elective annual general meeting in two months time, the Association’s 2017 amended constitution is its own enemy, says former executive committee member Black well Siwale.

And Siwale says the amended constitution would put the elective council meeting in limbo and uncertainty owing to lack of guidance regarding electoral rules.

The expelled Chingola administrator was however optimistic that that the upcoming emergency council meeting slated for next month would rectify the lacunas that had arisen from the amended constitution.

He said that should the emergency meeting fail to the address the contentious issues, the annual general meeting in March should do that before voting.

Siwale further noted that the FAZ executive had exhibited tendencies of frightened men in spearheading the enactment of the constitution as it was done in a haste and selfish manner without taking into account other important factors such as electoral code.

“That document was done in haste, flawed and in a selfish manner. Case in point where Andrew (Kamanga) didn’t know that in that constitution there’s no electoral appeals committee , and there’s no electoral code of conduct,” Siwale said .

It had to take Konkola Mine Police writing and reminding him that he was calling for elections when these things were missing. FIFA writes back and said ensure that these things are done and that’s why they are calling for ECM now,” he said.

Siwale noted that without Konkola Mine Police writing to FAZ and raising concerns, the electoral process would have been in shambles by now.

He observed that  the emergency council meeting was merely called to come and ratify the members of the electoral appeals committee, electoral code of conduct and members of the electoral body.

And Siwale said that he was hopeful that the emergency council meeting would create a level playing field so that whoever was going to win could be congratulated.

He has since appealed to FAZ to open up the polls so that everyone could participate and compete freely .

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