Chando replaces Tseka as Silver chair
Silver Strikers FC supporters’ favourite Ralph Tseka has not retained his position as the club’s chairperson in the newly-constituted executive committee.
The club’s board of trustees—which is now headed by Chiku Kalilombe—has appointed the Central Bankers’ former goalkeeper and vice-chairperson Peter Chando to replace Tseka.
During a meeting called by sponsors Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) governor Dalitso Kabambe, who is also the team’s patron, the supporters committee, led by its chairperson King Malaya, requested the patron to consider maintaining Tseka as chairperson.
But Malaya yesterday said they have no problem with Tseka’s exclusion.
“Our interest was that sanity should be restored after weeks of confusion. Of course, we made that request, but at the end of the day the powers to appoint the club’s leadership lies in the hands of the board in consultation with the sponsors.
“So, as long as both the board and executive have been constituted, we have no problems and we are ready to work with the new executive. In fact, the new chairperson [Chando] not only played for Silver, but also served as vice-chairperson at some point,” he said yesterday.
Kalilombe said in coming up with the new executive, they considered persons who can represent the sponsors’ interests, in particular the positions of chairperson and treasurer.
“We considered a wide pool of people who can add value and contribute effectively to the running of the team,” he said.
The board chairperson said the executive is supposed to get down to work immediately, “but there are just some few logistical issues that we need to discuss with them and we are meeting tomorrow [today]”.
Lawrence Yobe has been retained as general secretary while former Football Association of Malawi (FAM) second vice-president Alick Tahuna is the new vice-chairperson.
Innocent Kadam’manja is the vice-general secretary while Judith Kachimanga is the treasurer. Her vice-treasurer is Patrick Mbiliyakula.
The committee members are Aaron Kamtepa, David Daimon, Lameck Chinula and Gertrude Moses.
The new executive committee has been appointed following the expiry of the previous committee’s tenure of office.
