THANK YOU DEMBARE, GOODBYE FOR NOW

. . . God willing, sometime in the future, I will be back

GOOD day Zimbabwe!

My name is Vincent Chawonza and, until Friday, I proudly called myself the vice-chairman of Dynamos.

It’s a role I was proud to have because I am a lifelong fan of the Glamour Boys.

Serving them in a leadership role was a dream come true for me.

On Friday I received a letter, via my Whatspp platform, advising me that I had been relieved of my duties because I had been found wanting on a number of fronts.

I just want to say that I have never done anything that was outside club protocol because for someone to say protocol has been breached, there must be protocol in the first place.

There has to be something put on the table to say Vincent you breached Article A sub-section B or something like that.

Every time that I have talked to the media I had been sent to do so because I was in charge of communications, it was a mandate that I had and I think all these are just reasons to nail me * and not the actual truth.

I was following my passion in trying to help my team and there were things I didn’t like and I know that it’s very expensive to be a good man and to be upright.

I never said Khama is unprofessional and anyone who has the evidence to prove that I said that must come forward and prove me otherwise.

Even though I believe that the way Khama handled himself was not professional, I never said that. There has been a lot of backbiting inside our executive and there have been so many people who sponsored media articles for my character assassination for a long time and you will see that it all came from my colleagues in the executive committee.

I think the demand for professionalism caused seizures among some of the executive committee members I was working with.

They were paying those behind the scenes so that I appear as if I am someone who is causing divisions and instability so that the leadership can chuck me out.

High demand of professionalism creates a lot of enemies because some people would be benefitting from the system and you want to stop that when they have been doing it for the past 40 years.

Culture change is very difficult.

I wanted to fight and stick to my principles and I was resisting the coming back of certain members of our technical team whose names I will not mention, we had promoted them, given them more money but they were fighting for a lower position at the club.

Definitely, there were things that they were benefitting from.

There is no space for professionalism at the club, the moment you try to instil things that are professional you are deemed an enemy of everyone and they go to the leadership to say you are causing disharmony and everyone will fight you till you leave.

Kalisto Pasuwa won four straight league titles and he was forced out, Kenny Mubaiwa won four straight championships but was forced out. Their firing had nothing to do with football. Our problem is administration and once you try to bring in professionalism, the people who are benefitting from the chaos will fight to get you out of the system.

These are the same people involved in betting and match-fixing syndicates at our club, who will even pay our players to ensure that we lose and they benefit.

I have a father/son relationship with Bernard Marriot but I’m not sure of what he was being told about me but Dynamos is my club and hopefully, in the future, time permitting, I will be back to help my club as a leader again.

I will follow the team, when I can, and cheer for it as a fan and the only difference now is that I don’t have to use my personal resources to help as was the case when I was in the executive committee.