We would like to kindly bring to your attention, our concerns over a noted unprofessional conduct of your lead sports journalist, Mike Bango. We have noted with great concern that the said presenter is using the Zodiak Radio platform to disadvantage a deserving team in the Northern region Simama football League through his propaganda-filled biased coverage of the same.
You may wish to know that the legitimate body running the Northern Region Football League dully informed Malawi Super League officials that Mzuni FC are the champions of the Lower league thereby qualifying for the TNM Super League. This is the reality Bango is apparently at pains to come to terms with.
Instead, Bango has been castigating and/or demonizing Mzuni FC in an apparent drift to portray, to the public, that the team (Mzuni FC) is not the legitimate winner of the League thereby cultivating Public Sympathy towards the outsmarted Chilumba FC, the team which came second in the Championship.
You may wish to revisit the recorded programme of yesterday’s (2nd March) TNM soccer show as well as Sunday’s (March 1) Morning’s Sports Show where he abruptly inserted a nonentity to simply lambast Mzuni FC. In both programmes, we believe you will not miss the sarcasm and ridicule which he deliberately introduced when covering about the attacked team.
We sincerely believe that a reporter or journalist could openly be a fan of a certain team, and still do their job properly by writing up unbiased article and/or presenting air programmes as neutrally as expected of them. This is what Mr. Bango must do. He must turn his hat around and act like a professional; otherwise his ridiculous conduct is forcefully evoking profane perception towards him and, by extension, the media in which he is operating.
His poor and biased coverage is causing confusion within the Executive Committee running the League in the Northern region while Mzuni FC is being tortured to embrace the hate. Your Chap, Bango, is deliberately creating a mountain out of a molehill in as far as Simama League is concerned.
We further encourage your management to investigate rumors that he, Bango, has received bribe from Major Bicyle of Chilumba Barracks FC to unleash propaganda against Mzuni FC as he is currently doing.
It’s a foregone conclusion that Mzuni FC are the dejure champions as evidenced by the Letter the Simama League officials have written to Super League duly informing them of this outcome and further instructing them on the Colours Mzuni FC will be using in the top flight League.
Since this is not the first time to complain about his unfair coverage of Mzuni FC even over the past seasons where Mzuni has been consistently finishing on second position for three consecutive seasons; we demand the following.
1. Your Chap Mike Bango whom we are not sure of his professional qualifications should with immediate effect stop covering about Simama Football League issues until this issue is fully resolved by the officials as he wants us to believe that there are issues when there is no any issue.
2. You discipline him based on professional conduct as his abuse of office is putting the image of the respected Zodiak radio in disrupte. We have recent cases where unprofessional conduct in respected institutions in our country is not being condone and we can cite Black Jack of Times TV and Timpunza Mwansambo—who despite their mesmerizing talent—have been taught a lesson that you get the chop if you are not playing by the rules of the game.
By copy of this letter, other sports journalists—print, online and electronic—should desist from being bias even if your team is losing. Football is not Politics. Let journalist’s deist from being used as conduits of propaganda, insinuations and all sorts of crap simply meant to bring mayhem.
Signed
FORMER MZUNI FC OFFICIALS RESIDENT IN LILONGWE