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FAZ councillors trash proposal at heated AGM

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Councillors have overwhelmingly rejected the proposal to restrict anyone wishing to stand for the FAZ presidency.

FAZ councillors refused to even put a vote to the motion during a heated FAZ annual general meeting held at Mulungushi Rock of Authority in Kabwe on Saturday.

FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya then deferred the matter for further debate to September after the clubs had thoroughly studied the proposal.

Kalusha added that it was not his wish to be life FAZ president.

However, Mkushi United secretary Bright Mumba described the proposal was discriminatory.

“Such a proposal will not take our football anywhere,” Mumba said.

“We should amend the constitution just to get rid of some people.

“One thing we don’t realise is that enemies of FAZ may come from within the executive.”

Nchanga Rangers and Afrisports had proposed that anyone wishing to stand as FAZ president should have served as an executive committee member.

The club’s also proposed that presidential candidates pay a nomination fee of K25,000 while those seeking the vice-president position should pay K20,000.

K15,000 and K10,000 should also be paid by those eyeing the treasurer and committee member positions respectively.

The rejection of the proposal is a referendum of sorts and set to jolt Kalusha’s bid for re-election in 2016.

19 COMMENTS

    • Why even bring it back in September if people say it is bad and not worth considering? This is Kalusha’s using Nchanga as his mouth piece. He thinks he can replicate the nonsense he voted for at CAF. What greed?

    • Kalusha should apply for job as coach. If this is too cheap for him, then he should go into politic, 2016 as MP for Mufulira central.

    • Fake great Kalu join politics . FAZ does not belong to you and your corruption . It’s not your Bemba Kingdom like PF and MMD.

  1. Congratulations FAZ councillors! Well done! Just make sure to follow it up with a wise vote when time comes in order to move football in Zambia forward.

  2. I can see 2016 FAZ general elections will be heavily contested, few present executive members will return their seats if there are to recontest.
    Poor performances of the three national teams ( snr, U20 & U20 ), non cup competitions for lower league and the issue of only having one cup competition. Such may affect their re elected.

  3. This is brilliant news…Faz doesn’t belong to one man. Cheers to that still a lot of work to do in Zambian football!!

  4. Government has ended up paying that coach he fired a lot of money this kalusha should go if he did not plan his retirement that is non of our business.

  5. It’s seems Zambia is rotten from top to down. The whole nation in reverse gear because of unnecessary politics mainly due to greed.

  6. We created a tinpot dictator in FTJ through ZCTU, and in Sata through our tolerance of his panga wielding in Chawama and in his hounding out of MMD potential contenders to the presidency of the party during FTJ’s bid for Third Term. We should not create another tinpot dictator.

    • UBU TONGA AT ITS BEST, YOU WILL NEVER RULE ZAMBIA. YOU HATE EVERY THING NORTHEN. FOR SIMATA, HE IS A COOL GUY. I REMEMBER SIMAATA AS A UNZA STUDENT IN PF WING WHEN HE PAID FOR ALL UNZA PF STUDENTS TO ENTER MULUNGUSHI WHERE MICHAEL WAS ADRESSING PEOPLE IN 2006. BUT RB INSATIABLE APPETITE TO GET INTO FOOTBALL MADE HIM JOIN HIM AND LOST EVERYTHING. SIMAATA COULD NOT TALK FOR FEAR PF WOULD SILENCE HIM. SIMAATA LEFT PF BECAUSE HE RECEIVED POWER TO FIGHT KALUSHA.SIMAATA CAMPAIGNED FOR RB FOR POWER TO FIGHT KALU. REMEMBER KAMBWILI AND ALL TRUE GREEN PF KNOW THESE SCHEMES, THEY ARE IN CABINET AND SHALL PROTECT KALU

  7. Awee Kalusha it’s too much ! Can’t you see that you have outlived your usefulness sure? Football in Zambia is finished let other pipo run FAZ please please! Wamuyaya is long gone fumapo people don’t want you.

  8. There’s no need to discuss or debate this useless proposal in the future. Kalusha is behaving like Sata and his useless by-elections that achieved nothing. Just musical chairs while the master manipulator remains center stage, lapping up the cream.

    • Tongas and spineless **** feel that FAZ is the easiest employment they can get. Great Kalu is wamuyayaya. Tonga MPS like attacking Great Kalu in parliament when that opportunity comes. In case you forget not too long ago he brought icikombe here.Kalu for ever until he gets CAF.

  9. The problem is that Kalusha thinks Zambians owe him alot for being African footballer of the year in 1988. He wants Zambians to keep financing his life style. He does not live in Zambia but in RSA and remotely administers football matters in Zambia. This is why things are falling apart in football in Zambia.

    • To be Chairperson dull boy is ex-official. Operations are run by the executive secretariat. The secretariat must always be in contact with the president. Like after the Kabwe meeting, the seretariat must now implement the resolutuions of revamping football. All members of the committee are part-time except the secretary general and his staff. Presidents of associations are employees of other sectors and only chairs special sessions at their ASSOCIATIONS. In Zambia we are used to full time Faz presidents daily plundering fuel and other resources as if they were full time employees of the association. Kalu is well settled in SA and instrumentalin figthing for sponsorship. But you hate him. I am not suprised, you see how teachers of sports fight to be sports masters in Zambia

  10. Seems Kalusha has learnt a lot from his mentor Blatter.

    FAZ needs a massive overhaul from top to bottom otherwise football standards will continue going down the pan! Watching any of the Zambia national teams had now become a very painful exercise. Enuf is enuf!!!

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