I am vindicated on gate revenue fraud—Msungama

Former Big Bullets chairperson Kondi Msungama feels Sulom’s claims that the team was partly to blame for meagre revenue during their TNM Super League match against Surestream FC last weekend vindicates his innocence on accusations that he was responsible for the club’s mismanagement of funds.

Super League of Malawi (Sulom) said although some factors such as security lapse contributed to the generation of only K6 million from the game, the outsourcing committee led by some Bullets supporters’ committee members are also to blame.

“They fired me because they said I was responsible for the mismanagement of funds. But why are funds still disappearing weeks after I left office? This vindicates my point that they fired me because I was obstructing the fans from such malpractices,” Msungama said.

Msungama added that he has evidence on how some top supporters’ committee members tricked the club by deploying his friends at the gates so as to share the money afterwards.

Msungama also claimed that the club’s trustees ganged up against him because he prevented them from getting K40 000 each as allowance for being present at the teams’ games.

“I was always against fans being involved in gate management, supporters getting transport allowances to away games and the trustees receiving allowances for watching games. They saw me as a stumbling block and decided to fire me,” he said.

However, Bullets’ supporters’ committee secretary Mavuto Chibambo described Msungama’s claims as last kicks of a dying horse and denied that he benefits from the gate revenue.

“Everybody knows Msungama was a poisonous thorn in Bullets’ flesh. If he were a good leader, how could the club incur debts amounting to over K30 million at a time we were getting support from stakeholders?

“On the issue of poor gate collections at the stadium, even Sulom admits there are several factors contributing to that and there is no evidence that it was Bullets supporters who were at the centre of gate fraud,” Chibambo said.

Chibambo backed the team’s trustees on getting game allowances, saying that is provided for in their constitution. However, when The Nation checked the constitution, it did not find where such provision was made. n