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Grace Chingoma Senior Sports Reporter
DYNAMOS’ former players’ board of trustees’ chairman Ernest Kamba has thrown in the towel and resigned from his post after he refused to be part of the decision to engage an independent arbitrator to help resolve the club’s ownership wrangle.
Kamba was leading the 10-member board, which is viewed as a parallel structure to the current administration led by Bernard Lusengo Marriot that has been fighting the legitimacy of the former winger to lead the club and his contentious claim to a 51 percent share ownership.
Kamba was chairman of a board that also has Sunday Chidzambwa, Moses Chunga, Clayton Munemo, David George, Clayton Munemo, Cremio Mapfumo, Eric Aisam, Labani Kandi and Gina Kapfunde.
However, cracks soon emerged in the constituted board after Kamba refused to take up the offer from the club’s principal sponsors, Sakunda Holdings, to engage in professional mediation in the protracted dispute for the control of the club.
According to an advertisement that was placed in The Herald yesterday, the Dynamos electoral college members are being invited for an emergency meeting to be held this Sunday to deliberate on the issue and probably appoint a new leader.
“Notice is hereby given to all electoral college members of an Emergency Meeting to be held at Stodart Hall at 12:30 pm on Sunday following the sudden resignation of the Board of Trustees chairman Mr. E Kamba as a result of issues that seriously divided the Board. Members are requested to attend this important meeting,” read the advert.
Efforts to get a comment from the secretary of the board Eric Aisam were fruitless yesterday.
The Dynamos Electoral College has already given a mandate to the 10-member committee fighting Marriot to go ahead with the mediation process as proposed by the principal sponsor.
The ownership wrangle issues are currently being handled at the Harare Magistrates Court.
But Sakunda Holdings serious about getting a good return on their investment has proposed professional mediation to assist the warring factions at DeMbare so that solutions are found.
DeMbare board chairman Marriot has since said that he is ready for mediation.
The resignation of Kamba is unlikely going to rock the mediation process since other former players were in agreement with the offer for mediation instead of pursuing the legal channel. Kamba and a few others were adamant that the constitution is clear on shareholding.
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.
Sakunda Holdings has warned that the continued bickering could affect future sponsorship deals and urged the warring parties to find common ground.
The principal sponsor has assured that the mediation process would be conducted without prejudice to any rights that each of the parties have and will have no effect on any past or present legal proceedings involving the warring parties.
The warring parties can consult their professional advisors for guidance and representation in the whole process.
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