Mzuzu City Council (MCC) chief executive officer (CEO), MacLoud Kadam’manja, has said that Mzuzu Stadium will be ready before 2016 TNM Super League kick-off on April 12.
Three wall panels are down, and the council’s boss said the walls did not collapse due to heavy rains, but due to renovations which started in December.
“We have engaged a contractor to do the work and the agreement is that he should be done before the kick-off of the 2016 TNM Super League. Therefore, there is no need for the teams or football spectators to get worried,” Kadam’manja said.
Kadam’manja added that the exercise would cost the council K1.5 million.
He said the contractor was expected to continue demolishing all panels that have cracks, and rebuild them.
“We are done with the planting of grass on the ground. We will now be concentrating on the walls and finish with the wire fence separating the stands and the ground, then the covered stands. We have already bought the wire. It is an exercise that can only take about a day or two,” Kadamm’anja said.
The CEO’s statement contradicts the council’s assistant director of parks, leisure and environment, Yotam Mtafwa, who told the media that the wall collapsed on Sunday due to heavy rains.
The stadium will this year host Super League clubs, Moyale Barracks, Chilumba and Mzuni.
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