{"id":72444,"date":"2018-12-24T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72444"},"modified":"2018-12-24T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T11:13:47","slug":"fam-agm-makes-drastic-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/24\/fam-agm-makes-drastic-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fam AGM makes drastic changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Isaac Salima: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/walter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13024 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/walter-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/walter-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/walter.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Delegates to Saturday\u2019s Football Association of Malawi (Fam) Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Mangochi made drastic changes to the association\u2019s constitution, effectively paving the way for long-time president Walter Nyamilandu to stand for another three terms.<\/p>\n<p>The delegates also struck out the Malawi School Certificate of Education minimum requirement for those wishing to contest for the association\u2019s executive member positions.<\/p>\n<p>Nyamilandu now has the freedom to continue leading Malawi football as delegates removed the three-term limit to the association\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>This makes Nyamilandu eligible to contest in Fam\u2019s 2019 elections since the amendments will only be effective after the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Fam Legal Affairs Committee Chairperson, Jabbar Alide, confirmed that the amendments give the liberty to Nyamilandu to contest if he wishes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAmendments do not apply restrospectively; so, Nyamilandu is eligible to contest and serve for three more terms,\u201d<\/em> Alide said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Nyamilandu told a press conference recently that he would not seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, held at Sunbird Nkopola, also agreed that National Women\u2019s Football Association should have two representatives in Fam\u2019s executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates also maintained 36 as the number of delegates to Fam\u2019s general assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Nyamilandu said the AGM tackled important issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe had a fantastic AGM and very healthy debate where presentations on our activities and finances were made. We had undertaken a number of activities in terms of youth football development, training, and competitions. Malawi national football teams were all very active at all levels. We are hopeful that we will have a fantastic 2019,\u201d<\/em> Nyamilandu said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the meeting, delegates also approved Fam\u2019s electoral body and electoral appeals committee members for the association\u2019s 2019 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaac Salima: Delegates to Saturday\u2019s Football Association of Malawi (Fam) Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Mangochi made drastic changes to the association\u2019s constitution, effectively paving the way for long-time president Walter Nyamilandu to stand for another three terms. The delegates also struck out the Malawi School Certificate of Education minimum requirement for those wishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72444","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\/72444","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=72444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72448,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72444\/revisions\/72448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}