Mwenya cries foul

KONKOLA Mine Police president Gideon Mwenya is concerned that the planned meeting between FAZ president Andrew Kamanga and Super League clubs will disadvantage other players in the forthcoming elections.

Mwenya, a vice presidential candidate in the forthcoming Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) general elections.

He is concerned that Kamanga will be meeting a big constituent of councilors when the Association was yet to hold its polls.

He claimed this would be viewed as campaigning.

Mwenya said Kamanga being a player himself in the FAZ elections, should instead delegate the General Secretary and other secretarial staff so as to level the playing field for all.

He said that the FAZ president should be sincere not to take advantage of his incumbency by going out campaigning in the name of meetings.

“The FA president (Kamanga) is an interested party in this coming election, so let him not attend that consultative meeting that will be held tomorrow. The secretary can brief the clubs on whatever suggestions that will come up. Who knows what happens tomorrow suppose there was a change of leadership  then what happens, it would mean most of the plans would be thrown away,’’ Mwenya said.

“We want to be genuine in the way we are managing the game because if we are going to be doing things out of personal gain then we are going to be setting a bad precedence that will be difficult to reverse,” he said.

And Mwenya has called on relevant stakeholders to speed up the process of meeting with FIFA so as to get done away with the wrangles that had engulfed football.

Mwenya says he was looking forward to seeing the game in Zambia go back to the unifying factor that it was before unlike what had been transpiring the last few years that had seen the game divided.

In the aftermath of the abridged league that came to an end last week FAZ president Kamanga has today called for a consultative meeting with Super league clubs that will focus on the next season.