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Grace Chingoma
Senior Sports Reporter
CRACKS have emerged in the recently constituted Dynamos board of trustees led by Ernest Kamba ahead of a key meeting of the club’s electoral college to be held this Sunday at Stoddart Hall in Mbare.
The 10-member board, which is viewed as a parallel structure to the current administration led by Bernard Lusengo-Marriot, has been fighting the legitimacy of the former winger to lead the club and his contentious claim to a 51 percent share ownership.
The ownership wrangles issues are currently being handled at the Harare Magistrates Courts.
Sources said the fallout between Kamba and some of his erstwhile comrades occurred after he refused to take up the offer from the club’s principal sponsors Sakunda Holdings to engage professional mediation in the protracted dispute for the control of the institution.
DeMbare board chairman Marriot has since warmed up to the idea and has announced he is ready for the mediation.
The other former players are in agreement with the offer for mediation instead of pursuing the legal channel while Kamba and others are adamant that the Dynamos constitution is clear on the shareholding.
And Kamba has called for a meeting for all the members of the club this weekend.
The meeting notice was circulated in the newspapers and Kamba yesterday confirmed inserting the advert.
“Please note that there will be a meeting of the Electoral College and the board of trustees on Sunday 7 August 2022 at Stoddart Hall Mbare at 12.30pm to resolve the issue of shares that has divided the board”, read the advert.
Yesterday Kamba played down the issues and told The Herald that it was more of a routine meeting.
“It’s not a big issue. It’s a normal thing. The board from time to time has to report to the Electoral College because they are given the mandate so from time to time we meet and come up with decisions,” said Kamba.
Kamba did not want to delve into the infighting within members of his committee amid allegations that Kamba and Gina Kapfunde have broken ranks with the other members of the committee.
“In any organisation when you are working in a committee you have to report to someone. So we are going to the Electoral College for direction to take. We advertised for every Dynamos member to attend and we hope that they will attend,” said Kamba.
Aisam, who is the secretary of that committee, said they are not aware of the meeting.
“We presume it was called by Kamba who is the chair. He is working with one or two other members and we are not part of that and we did not call for that meeting,” he said.
Kamba who was elected chairman of a 10-member board of trustees that also has Sunday Chidzambwa, Moses Chunga, Clayton Munemo, David George, Clayton Munemo, Cremio Mapfumo, Labani Kandi, Makwinji-Soma Phiri and Gina Kapfunde, is said to have differed with the other members on the way forward.
Aisam, who is secretary of the board, said it was unfortunate that events are turning out like this. However, he could not confirm whether members will heed the meeting call.
“We cannot pre-empt the course of action that we are going to take. But what we know is that we want to restore the club’s legacy and order so that the big club realises its potential.
“Social media is hammering us with negative stories that even cast the club, which now has solid sponsorship, in a bad light.
“We are doing something progressive but there are some outsiders who seem to be unhappy with the move. We remain unfazed, though. We are seriously working towards helping the club to become professional and it is voluntary. But we know there are some people benefiting from the club,” said Aisam.
The former players reckon that order should return to the club by reverting to the Justice Malaba Supreme Court judgement of 2006, which ruled that the club should be run in accordance with the founding constitution of 1963.
However, Marriot has long held that Dynamos ceased to be a community club via a resolution passed during the 1998 AGM.
According to Marriot things changed in 1999 when the original founding fathers including him registered a private company which now controls the club.
Sakunda in their efforts to see peace prevailing and also get a good return on their investment have proposed professional mediation to assist the warring factions so that permanent solutions are found and allow the club to attract more partners.
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