Whichever way one looks at it, local football is in a bad state. One can choose to ignore or turn a blind eye to it but its chaotic state won’t be restored by miraculous intervention. The Botswana Premier League (BPL) is headless and degenerating into a comatose state from claims of financial irregularities and colluding to confirmed use of defaulters while the Botswana Football Association (BFA) at political and administrative level still require a strong hand of control and restoration of order. It is understandable why the minister wanted to intervene. From his threat then to now, nothing appears to have changed for the better. BPL Board’s chairperson and his deputy are deposed while the CEO and his personal assistant are yet to return to work despite having served the employer with a letter of demand for restoration of his rights. This week Walter Kgabung and his deputy Solomon Mantswe attempted through a press conference to clear their names but did not go all the way to seek a court injunction against those who pushed them out. Their failure to take the matter to court denied the greater public the only reliable platform of getting to know the full details…
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