{"id":39355,"date":"2017-01-20T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=39355"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:19:39","slug":"k10-million-for-stadium-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/01\/20\/k10-million-for-stadium-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"K10 million for stadium renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mzuzu City Council (MCC) needs K10 million to renovate Mzuzu Stadium fence, the council\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Karen Msiska, confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said they need the money to install a wire mesh that demarcates the supporter\u2019s stands from the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have observed that the stadium\u2019s fence is vandalised each year. So, considering that we are spending more money maintaining it, we will replace it with a wielded mesh, which is quite stronger,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the facility was vandalised during the 2016 season, hence the need for the renovations.<\/p>\n<p>Msiska, however, said that he was unsure if the council will source the funds and renovate the facility before next season\u2019s kick off in April.<\/p>\n<p>Msiska added that the council will also install a razor wire along the dressing room passage to protect match officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maintenance will depend on the availability of money. We are challenged a bit [financially], so we will do it in phases. But if the K10 million can be sourced between now and April, then no doubt, come next football season, everything will be in place,\u201d Msiska added.<\/p>\n<p>Mzuni\u2019s Coach, Alex Ngwira, whose team uses the stadium as a home ground, said pitch invasion compromises players\u2019 safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mzuzu City Council (MCC) needs K10 million to renovate Mzuzu Stadium fence, the council\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Karen Msiska, confirmed on Wednesday. He said they need the money to install a wire mesh that demarcates the supporter\u2019s stands from the playing field. \u201cWe have observed that the stadium\u2019s fence is vandalised each year. So, considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39357,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions\/39357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}