{"id":79692,"date":"2019-06-27T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79692"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:19:24","slug":"suspend-mike-butao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/suspend-mike-butao\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Suspend Mike Butao\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79695\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mike-butao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mike-butao-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mike-butao-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mike-butao.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNDER PROBE\u2014Butao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Be Forward Wanderers Supporters Committee has asked the club\u2019s Executive Committee to suspend General Secretary Mike Butao to pave the way for fair investigations into his alleged involvement in financial mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>Butao, who is being accused of withdrawing about K2 million monthly from the team\u2019s sponsorship coffers to cater for airtime distribution deal with TNM, denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers Supporters Committee Secretary, Samuel Mponda, said the team should officially announce that Butao has been suspended following the allegations before the supporters react.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAs it is, we can\u2019t work with Butao because he was running the business independently when other committee members were not aware. To ensure that the matter is concluded fairly, we want the executive to announce that Butao has been suspended. If this does not happen, the supporters will take unspecified action,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wanderers Chairperson, Gift Mkandawire, earlier told the local press that the team\u2019s supporters must exercise caution by not making rushed conclusions before investigations are over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cButao has gone on leave for unspecified period so he is not handling secretarial duties currently,\u201d<\/em> Mkandawire said Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, Butao refused to comment on the allegations levelled at him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cLet\u2019s wait for the club to investigate and give a statement. I have nothing to say,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TNM Public Relations and Sponsorship Manager, Limbani Nsapato, said it was difficult for them to divulge their client\u2019s information without proper channels.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Mkandawire accused a section of the team\u2019s supporters and opposing fans of fabricating lies to tarnish the Nomads\u2019 reputation.<\/p>\n<p>He said some members of the committee were ready to step down and emulate former team manager Steve Madeira\u2019s example after he resigned after some fans had accused him of bringing confusion to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Be Forward Wanderers Supporters Committee has asked the club\u2019s Executive Committee to suspend General Secretary Mike Butao to pave the way for fair investigations into his alleged involvement in financial mismanagement. Butao, who is being accused of withdrawing about K2 million monthly from the team\u2019s sponsorship coffers to cater for airtime distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79692","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=79692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79696,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79692\/revisions\/79696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}