Paralympics Committee postpones AGM

The meeting had been set for Harare to map the way forward for sport for people living with disabilities but it turned out that the committee’s constitution that was amended last year to enable them to hold the meeting has not been registered with the Sports Commission.
The currently registered ZNPC constitution does not provide for an annual meeting to be held and the amendments are scheduled to be considered by the SRC board of commissioners at their meeting to be held on March 25.

The national committee has indicated that the amendments are mandatory requirements according to the International Paralympic Committee guidelines and they are making every effort to ensure that formal registration is obtained before implementation.
ZNPC president, Michael Bulagango, said they have to resubmit the constitution to the Sports Commission.

“We realised that our constitution amendments we did last year were not registered by the SRC board, we did not know that their term of office had expired when we submitted the constitution and they kept it only to be told to resubmit it because the board is sitting towards the end of this month.
“We had been waiting thinking that everything was in place.

“The International Paralympic Committee sent us some guidelines saying they want our constitution to be aligned with the international standards and there are quite a number of those amendments.
“We will go ahead with the meeting but we have to wait for the amendments to be registered since they are meeting,” said Michael Bulagango.

The ZNPC president, however, said they are going to hold a board meeting early next month in Gweru where the National Paralympic Games are set to be staged this year.
“We are going to push our board meeting towards the Paralympic Games so that we cut costs.
“It will be our first board meeting, we wanted to have it next week but since the Paralympic Games are coming soon we thought it’s much better to meet in Gweru.

“We would want to meet the executive of our umbrella associations, it’s important to see if they have constitutions, representation in all provinces and see if they audited accounts among other things,” said Bulagango.