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Dynamos Football Club chairman Bernard Marriott arrested – Nehanda Radio — Bernard Marriot

Hope Chizuzu

Bernard Marriot, who is not a founding member of Dynamos football club, nor an owner of Dynamos Pvt Ltd - a company formed by the club - will soon be in court and face his demons, as the new board of trustees close in on his shenanigans, The Page can report.

After holding the club hostage, having plundered its resources and tried and failed to sell off the shares, bona fide members are now ready with all the paperwork, including but not limited to the crucial Justice Malaba judgement.

Not just Marriot who is claiming 51 percent shareholding of the Pvt Ltd, but also Robson Rundaba and Israel Magwenzi, two of the surviving seven directors said to hold seven percentage shareholding each.

It has not been explained what happened to the 35 percent, allegedly held by five other members who have since died.

The court will hear what happened to the Rundaba case in which he was questioning how "his seven percentage" was withdrawn from him by Marriot.

It will be interesting to know how Rundaba, who has conspicuously gone quiet over the issue, came to hold the seven percent when he is neither a founding player nor a former player, a prerequisite, according to the constitution, for anyone to be a trustee and subsequently, a director in the Pvt Ltd.

David George, a grounded former star of the club and Ernest Kamba, the star that shone like a stellar, are leading the quest for the return of the club to its real owners.

What is shocking the Dynamos faithfuls is how the whole world has watched Marriot claim he is a founder player when it is known that he is not.

To make matters worse, he is claiming he owns a majority shareholding in the Dynamos Pvt Ltd, a company registered by the late Josiah Akende.

We never heard the founding player who is perhaps the most eminent son of the fabled club, Obediah Sarupinda, claim that he owned Dynamos, yet there is no-one who could do that with justification more than “Wasu.” But, shamefully, Marriot does.

If Sarupinda, a bona-fide founder could not claim he owns Dynamos, who then is Marriot, who played a handful of matches for the club in much later days, to claim he owns Dynamos?

If Josiah Akende who registered the Dynamos Pvt Ltd never claimed he owned it, where is Marriot getting the Dutch madness to claim it?

For how long can the justice system watch this judicial rape on clear grounds where a Supreme court ruling is available but never enforced, causing this prejudice to the club and millions of its supporters?

How has Marriot been allowed to continue to rape the club and everyone associated with it to an extend he could invade the President ED's sanctum to continue defiling the system?

It is expected the matter to re-set the Dynamos clock is opening soon and is meant to ask Marriot to show cause why he cannot be charged with fraud, theft or any such vile as he has committed in his fraudulent activities at the members club called Dynamos.

When Dynamos is struggling for breath, as is happening now, the whole football family is asphyxiated. Uphold the Malaba judgement and bring Marriot to account to save the club from further dearth.

He must be stopped from continuing the plunder and allow the constitutionally elected board of trustees to exercise their authority and manage the club according the dictates of the 1963 constitution until such a time necessary amendments to the statutes are made to effect changes.