Kusakala (right), Bushiri’s sponsor proxy
* Demands that Kusakala “must immediately stop working with the chairman Kampanikiza who voluntarily resigned from board
* He bypasses the legally recognised Board to manage key matchday operations, camping logistics, and team movements directly through the former executive chairman
By Duncan Mlanjira
Top flight football league side, Dedza Dynamos, has written to Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s Goshen City complaining that the sponsors’ proxy representative Aubrey Kusakala is interfering with the team’s governance.
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In a letter dated November 6, 2026, by the team’s executive Board to Bushiri, Dedza Dynamos demands that Kusakala “must immediately stop working with the chairman who voluntarily resigned from board.
Bushiri has been enlightened that the club now has a newly-constituted Board of Directors of Dedza Dynamos as the executive leadership mandated by its club patron to spearhead its institutional commercialisation framework.
“We acknowledge and deeply appreciate Goshen City’s monumental sponsorship,” says the letter. “This partnership stands out as one of the premier corporate investments within the Malawi Super League.
“Our core objective as an active, professional board is to safeguard Goshen City’s brand equity, maximise your corporate return on investment, and establish flawless corporate governance structures that shield all associated parties from operational liabilities.”
The Board further highlights that “Goshen City management recently raised valid and highly critical queries regarding discrepancies within the club’s payroll”.
“The current Board takes these observations with the utmost seriousness. To ensure complete transparency, we wish to formally place it on record that these specific discrepancies are legacy anomalies directly inherited last month from the dissolved previous executive committee.
“While such irregularities may have been tolerated as normal practice under the prior administration, they contradict the professional standards of the current Board.
“We have aggressively launched an independent internal financial review to rectify these historical payroll errors and ensure absolute fiscal responsibility going forward.
“While we are dedicated to resolving these historical financial issues, we must candidly bring to your attention critical operational challenges that present material risk to both Dedza Dynamos and Goshen City.”
Thus to successfully institutionalise and protect Goshen City’s investment, the Board outlines current “parallel governance structure that must be immediately corrected”.
They include:
1. Immediate cessation of unofficial operational channels
Bushiri is enlightened that the sponsor proxy Kusakala, “continues to bypass the legally recognised Board to manage key matchday operations, camping logistics, and team movements directly through the former executive chairman [Kampanikiza]”.
“To protect corporate integrity, Goshen City, through Mr. Kusakala, must immediately stop working with a chairman who voluntarily resigned from office.
“Further, the unprofessional conduct of the proxy is worsened by the fact that Mr Kusakala (a sponsor) communicates (by passing the board) with employees like a mere team manager on operations.
“This is a serious flaw on modern football and corporate governance principles.”
2. Enabling clear constitutional governance
The club maintains that the former executive chairman Kampanikiza “must stand down completely and allow the newly-appointed Board to govern the club as mandated”.
“Currently, the operational conduct of the sponsor’s proxy, Mr. Kusakala, heavily prioritises the ex-chairman over the legitimate board, creating an unsustainable shadow executive that completely paralyses the club’s administration.”
The club also discloses that recently Kusakala bypassed the Board by sending Kampanikiza to deliver financial resources to the team in Blantyre for an FDH Premiership match against Mighty Wanderers at Mpira Stadium.
The match against Mighty Wanderers at Mpira Stadium
3. Mandatory alignment on corporate key performance indicators (KPIs)
In accordance with standard global corporate setups, Dedza Dynamos asks for an urgent formal audience with Bushiri, the sponsor, to directly align themselves on corporate key performance indicators (KPIs), operational expectations, milestones, and structured financial reporting channels.
“This ensures that every kwacha injected is auditable, fully accounted for, and tied directly to measurable commercial outcomes.”
4. Protection against serious public and brand disrepute
The club further states that the current parallel operational arrangements, driven directly by the conduct of the sponsors proxy Kusakala, “are actively subverting institutional structures”.
The board maintains that Kusakala’s “continuous circumvention of governance protocol exposes both Dedza Dynamos and the sponsor Bushiri.
It also affects public and brand disrepute, “opening the entities up to avoidable legal, regulatory, and financial vulnerabilities”.
“To date, the current Board has experienced a complete breakdown in communication where the sponsor’s proxies have systematically refused to meet with us for formal alignment.
“Furthermore, standard financial governance dictates that sponsorship funds must be formally channeled through the club’s vetted banking accounts to allow for routine auditing and reporting.
“Managing operational cash injections via third-party proxies outside the view of the Board completely undermines the Secretariat and prevents the execution of proper commercial workflows.”
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The executive Board assures Bushiri that they “remain deeply committed to working collaboratively with Goshen City to build a highly professional, dominant, and commercially viable football club”.
“However, we cannot accept institutional or financial liability for payroll discrepancies and operational hiccups when our governance structure is actively bypassed.
“We urgently request a direct, formal meeting with your executive office, alongside your proxy Mr. Kusakala, to establish standard corporate operating lines and sign off on our shared KPIs,” maintains the club management.
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