Chronicle EditorLovemore Zigara in Gweru
A VOTE of no confidence has been passed on the Midlands Pool League executive led by Ronald Mutengwa from the Midlands State University.
The executive was accused of lack of transparency for failing to present financial statements as well as destroying the league by not preparing a fixtures programme for the second half of the season resulting in no action taking place after the mid-year break.
Documents show that 21 club chairpersons met on October 14 to deliberate on matters affecting their teams due to the executive’s failure.
The chairpersons then wrote a letter to Mutengwa requesting an all-stakeholders meeting.
Part of the letter to Mutengwa read: “Let us bring it to your attention that the Midlands Pool League chairpersons convened a meeting on 14 October 2017 and agreed that all games be cancelled until we are done with maladministration of the lovely sport in Gweru and the following are the resolutions that were passed. . . that the current executive must call for a meeting on or before 18 October 2017 . . . generally there are a lot of issues that need clarification.”
The league’s executive snubbed the chairpersons and refused to call for the meeting prompting them to pass a vote of no confidence on the top brass at a gathering convened a week later.
An interim executive led by Tamuka Kandira was selected to run the league’s affairs. Other members of the interim executive include Garikai Muyedziwa (vice-chairperson) from Karakwara Club and Reginald Maziriri of TelOne (secretary).
Junior Pool Club chairperson Tavakunda Madamombe was chosen as fixtures secretary, while Onwell Marange is the new treasurer.
Maziriri said: “Generally the whole executive did not execute its duties as per expectations and so teams felt the leadership was supposed to be replaced.
The interim executive will run the MPL until end of season and the good thing is that fixtures have already been prepared and games have resumed.”
Contacted for comment, Mutengwa accused the club chairpersons of being driven by unfounded reasons in plotting his downfall.
“I was just waiting for the annual general meeting to answer all those allegations they are levelling against me.
“There was a system which we inherited which made our work difficult, but we were in the process of amending the constitution so that operations would move smoothly. I don’t know about any mismanagement of funds by my executive and as for the stalled fixtures, that was not my work but the area of the fixtures secretary,” he said. — @lavuzigara1
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